Henrik Gyllstad
List of John Benjamins publications for which Henrik Gyllstad plays a role.
Journal
Development and initial validation of a yes/no vocabulary test for North Sámi: Drawing on item response theory and signal detection theory ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
2024 This paper accounts for the development and initial validation of a yes/no vocabulary test of North Sámi called North Sámi Vocabulary Test (NSVT). North Sámi (NS) is an Indigenous language spoken in northern Scandinavia. Being an endangered language, NS is in need of revitalisation efforts. One… read more
2017
Transfer into L3 English: Global accent in German-dominant heritage speakers of Turkish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:2, pp. 131–162 | Article
2017 This study is concerned with L3 acquisition in heritage speakers (HSs). The goals are to incorporate HSs into L3 acquisition research and investigate the role of language dominance for predicting L3 transfer. We analyze global accent in German-Turkish early bilinguals, HSs of Turkish, who… read more
Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: Issues with guessing and sampling rates ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 166:2, pp. 278–306 | Article
2015 In most tests of vocabulary size, knowledge is assessed through multiple-choice formats. Despite advantages such as ease of scoring, multiple-choice tests (MCT) are accompanied with problems. One of the more central issues has to do with guessing and the presence of other construct-irrelevant… read more
Linguistic correlates to communicative proficiency levels of the CEFR: The case of syntactic complexity in written L2 English, L3 French and L4 Italian EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 14 (2014), Roberts, Leah, Ineke Vedder and Jan H. Hulstijn (eds.), pp. 1–30 | Article
2014 This study is a contribution to the empirical underpinning of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), and it aims to identify linguistic correlates to the proficiency levels defined by the CEFR. The study was conducted in a Swedish school setting, focusing on English,… read more