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Investigating the Receptive Vocabulary Size of University-Level Chinese Learners of English: How Suitable Is the Vocabulary Levels Test?
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Li, Lan; MacGregor, Lucy J. – Language and Education, 2010
The Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) is widely used to assess the vocabulary size of second-language learners of English. The test assesses learners' knowledge of words of different frequencies within general English and of high-frequency words within academic texts. We used the VLT to measure the English vocabulary size of Chinese university students…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Word Frequency