Scott Jarvis (born 1966) is an

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. He is a professor of Linguistics at the

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, United States. His research focuses on

second language acquisition Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning — otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process by which people learn a second language. Second-language acquisition is also the scientific dis ...

more broadly, with a special focus on lexical diversity.

Career

Jarvis obtained his

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in linguistics at

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in 1991. He obtained a

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applied linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication rese ...

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in 1993. In 1997 he was awarded with the

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degree in linguistics at Indiana University. Between 2001 and 2002 he was the Chair of the Research Interest Section for TESOL. Jarvis was an associate hournal editor between 2007 and 2011, a board member and associate executive director between 2011 and 2015 and has been executive editor for ''Language Learning''. He was the Executive Committee Member for

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between 2014 and 2016.

Research

Jarvis is noted for his contribution on lexical diversity. He claimed that lexical diversity should viewed as an umbrella term similarly to

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. According to Jarvis's model, lexical diversity includes variability, volume, evenness, rarity, dispersion and disparity.

Bibliography

Books

*Scott, J. & Pavlenko, A. (2008). ''Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition''. New York: Routledge.

Articles

*Jarvis, S. (2000), Methodological Rigor in the Study of Transfer: Identifying L1 Influence in them Interlanguage Lexicon. ''

Language Learning Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language (in other words, gain the ability to be aware of language and to understand it), as well as to produce and use words and sentences to ...

, 50''(2), 245-309. doi

*Jarvis, S., & Odlin, T. (2000). Morphological type, spatial reference, and language transfer. ''

Studies in Second Language Acquisition ''Studies in Second Language Acquisition'' is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by Cambridge University Press. The editors for 2008 were Albert Valdman of Indiana University and Susan Gass of Michigan State University. According to th ...

, 22''(4), 535-556. doi

*Pavlenko, A., & Jarvis, S. (2002). Bidirectional Transfer. Applied Linguistics (journal), Applied Linguistics, 23(2), 190–214, doi

*Jarvis, S. (2002). Short texts, best-fitting curves and new measures of lexical diversity. ''

Language Testing ''Language Testing'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering language testing and assessment. Its editors-in-chief are Luke Harding (Lancaster University) and Paula Winke (Michigan State University). It was established in 1984 and is ...

, 19''(1), 57–84. doi

*McCarthy, P., & Jarvis, S. (2010). MTLD, vocd-D, and HD-D: A validation study of sophisticated approaches to lexical diversity assessment. '' Behavior Research Methods, 42''(2), 381-392.

Personal life

Jarvis married Sirpa, originally from

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, in 1990 and they had four children. Jarvis's native language is English. However, he has learned Finnish,

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...

, and

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jarvis, Scott 1949 births Living people Applied linguists Linguists from the United States Indiana University alumni University of Utah faculty