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Direct linkLiang Ye Tan; Stuart McLean; Young Ae Kim; Joseph P. Vitta – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
This study examines how second/foreign language (L2) word difficulty estimates derived from item response theory (IRT) and classical test theory (CTT) frameworks are virtually identical in the context of vocabulary testing. This conclusion is reached via a two-stage process: (a) psychometric assessments of both approaches and (b) L2 word…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, English (Second Language), Test Validity, Second Language Learning
Download full textTim Stoeckel; Stuart McLean – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
We are encouraged by Cobb's (2022) description of changes to the Morpholex profiling tool (https://www.lextutor.ca/cgi-bin/morpho/lex/) resulting in more accurate word classifications. This addresses one point in our recent commentary on Morpholex and on Laufer and Cobb's (2020) study using Morpholex (McLean & Stoeckel, 2021). However, Cobb…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Profiles, Computational Linguistics
