Brandon Kramer

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Affiliation: School of Education, Kwansei Gakuin University

Researcher number: 50780483
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3910-0810
J-GLOBAL ID: 201801000623752087
researchmap Member ID: B000327051

External link: https://brandonkramer.net/

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics /

Education

Jan, 2015 - Aug, 2023

Ph.D. in Education, Concentration in Applied Linguistics, Temple University, Japan Campus
Sep, 2011 - Aug, 2013

Master of Science, Education/TESOL, Temple University, Japan Campus
Aug, 2002 - May, 2006

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, University of Mary Washington

Major Papers

‘The wisdom of crowds’: When teacher judgments outperform word-frequency as a predictor of students’ vocabulary knowledge

Pablo Robles-García, Jeffrey Stewart, Christopher Nicklin, Joseph P. Vitta, Stuart McLean, Brandon Kramer

Language Teaching Research, Jun 14, 2023
262

L2 reading rate and word length: The necessity of character-based measurement

Brandon Kramer

Reading in a Foreign Language, 31(2) 201-225, Oct 15, 2019 Peer-reviewed
51

Student grittiness: A pilot study investigating scholarly persistence in EFL classrooms

Brandon Kramer

Osaka Jogakuin Junior College Kiyo, 47 25-41, Mar, 2018 Peer-reviewed
The creation and validation of a listening vocabulary levels test

Stuart McLean, Brandon Kramer, David Beglar

LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH, 19(6) 741-760, Nov, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Estimations of Japanese university learners' English vocabulary size using the Vocabulary Size Test

Brandon Kramer

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 3(2) 47-55, Sep, 2014 Peer-reviewed

Presentations

Extensive Reading and TOEIC Reading Performance

Kramer, B, Lyddon, P

JALT 46th Annual International Conference, Nov, 2020
Xreading and TOEIC

Lyddon, P, Kramer, B

2019 EuroCALL International Conference, Aug, 2019
The counts of Dracula and Monte Cristo: Frequency counts of homonymic meanings in graded readers

Parent, K, McLean, S, Kramer, B

Vocab@Leuven International Conference, Leuven, Belgium, Jul, 2019
The lexical properties of MOOC English for STEM subjects: A corpus analysis of a new genre of spoken academic English

Kramer, B, Anthony, L

Vocab@Leuven International Conference, Leuven, Belgium, Jul, 2019
Japanese high school EFL students' knowledge of inflectional and derivational forms

Kramer B, Iwamoto M

JALT 44th Annual International Conference, Nov, 2018
Assessment basics for the language classroom: A crash course in testing

KRAMER Brandon

The Asian Conference on Language Learning, May, 2017 Invited
Evaluating word lists used in EFL: Vocabulary test item difficulty indicates optimal sources of reference-corpora and the definition of word-unit

Pinchbeck G G, McLean S, Brown D, Kramer B

AAAL 2017 Conference, Portland, USA, Mar, 2017
The word family or the lemma? Evidence for the adoption of the lemma with Japanese EFL university students

McLean S, Kramer B

AAAL 2017 Conference, Portland, USA, Mar, 2017
Accurately measuring L2 listening self-efficacy

Kramer B, Denison C

JALT 42nd Annual International Conference, Nagoya, Japan, Nov, 2016
Revisiting the word family: What is an appropriate lexical unit for Japanese learners?

McLean S, Nation P, Pinchbeck G G, Brown D, Kramer B

Vocab@Tokyo International Conference, Sep, 2016
A comparison of multiple-choice and Yes/No test formats with a meaning-recall knowledge criterion

McLean S, Stewart J, Kramer B

Vocab@Tokyo International Conference, Sep, 2016
The vocabulary of graded readers

Kramer B, McLean S

Vocab@Tokyo International Conference, Sep, 2016
Assessment to maximize student learning

KRAMER Brandon

Kansai University, Jul, 2016 Invited
An updated listening vocabulary levels test

Kramer B, McLean S

JALT 41st Annual International Conference, Shizuoka, Japan, Nov, 2015
Differences in knowledge of aural and written receptive vocabulary forms among Japanese learners

KRAMER Brandon

JALT Vocab SIG Vocabulary Learning and Testing Colloquium, Sep, 2015 Invited
Examining the Vocabulary Size Test under Rasch and three parameter item response models

Stewart J, McLean S, Kramer B

PROMS, Fukuoka, Japan, Aug, 2015
A mixed-methods approach to validating a vocabulary listening test

Kramer B, McLean S

PROMS, Fukuoka, Japan, Aug, 2015
Should learners take every frequency level of the Vocabulary Size Test?

McLean S, Kramer B, Stewart J

JALT Vocab SIG Symposium, Jun, 2015 Invited
Comparing aural and written receptive vocabulary knowledge of the first 5k and the AWL

Kramer B, McLean S

LTRC, Toronto, Canada, Mar, 2015
Investigating aural vocabulary knowledge and its relationship with written receptive knowledge using a listening vocabulary levels test

Kramer B, McLean S

AAAL 2015 Conference, Toronto, Canada, Mar, 2015

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