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Loanwords and Vocabulary Size Test Scores: A Case of Different Estimates for Different L1 Learners
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Laufer, Batia; McLean, Stuart – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
The article investigated how the inclusion of loanwords in vocabulary size tests affected the test scores of two L1 groups of EFL learners: Hebrew and Japanese. New BNC- and COCA-based vocabulary size tests were constructed in three modalities: word form recall, word form recognition, and word meaning recall. Depending on the test modality, the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Semitic Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Second Language Learning