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Direct linkRead, John – Language Testing, 2023
Published work on vocabulary assessment has grown substantially in the last 10 years, but it is still somewhat outside the mainstream of the field. There has been a recent call for those developing vocabulary tests to apply professional standards to their work, especially in validating their instruments for specified purposes before releasing them…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Test Format
Download full textGoodwin, Amanda P.; Petscher, Yaacov; Reynolds, Dan; Lantos, Tess; Gould, Sara; Tock, Jamie – Education Sciences, 2018
The history of vocabulary research has specified a rich and complex construct, resulting in calls for vocabulary research, assessment, and instruction to take into account the complex problem space of vocabulary. At the intersection of vocabulary theory and assessment modeling, this paper suggests a suite of modeling techniques that model the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Correlation, Language Tests, Standardized Tests
Goodwin, Amanda P.; Petscher, Yaacov; Reynolds, Dan; Lantos, Tess; Gould, Sara; Tock, Jamie – Grantee Submission, 2018
The history of vocabulary research has specified a rich and complex construct, resulting in calls for vocabulary research, assessment, and instruction to take into account the complex problem space of vocabulary. At the intersection of vocabulary theory and assessment modeling, this paper suggests a suite of modeling techniques that model the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Correlation, Language Tests, Standardized Tests
Martinez, Ron; Schmitt, Norbert – Applied Linguistics, 2012
There is little dispute that formulaic sequences form an important part of the lexicon, but to date there has been no principled way to prioritize the inclusion of such items in pedagogic materials, such as ESL/EFL textbooks or tests of vocabulary knowledge. While wordlists have been used for decades, they have only provided information about…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Word Lists, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency
Nguyen, Le Thi Cam; Nation, Paul – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2011
This article describes the development and validation of a Vietnamese bilingual version of the Vocabulary Size Test--a test which measures written receptive vocabulary size. The test can be used to measure the English vocabulary size of Vietnamese learners of English. A learner's total vocabulary size is calculated by multiplying their test result…
Descriptors: Test Results, Vocabulary, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development
Kave, Gitit – Brain and Language, 2005
This paper describes a Hebrew naming test that consists of 48 line drawings ordered by word frequency. The initial validation phase included 48 young adults (ages 20-28), 48 old adults (ages 67-85), and 27 individuals with Alzheimer's disease (ages 68-87). Results indicated a modest odd-even internal consistency effect, word frequency effect, and…
Descriptors: Test Norms, Semitic Languages, Language Tests, Word Frequency
