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Direct linkFitzpatrick, Tess; Al-Qarni, Ibrahim; Meara, Paul – Language Learning Journal, 2008
This paper describes a single-subject study of vocabulary acquisition. The subject, an L1 English speaker, was required to learn 300 vocabulary items in Arabic at a rate of 15 new words a day over a period of 20 days. The learning period was followed by immediate and delayed tests of receptive and productive knowledge of target items. The…
Descriptors: Test Results, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Semitic Languages
Peer reviewedHuibregtse, Ineke; Admiraal, Wilfried; Meara, Paul – Language Testing, 2002
Discusses how to tackle the problem of determining a meaningful score for yes-no tests used to measure the size of receptive vocabulary. Signal Detection Theory is applied, and a new more accurate index is suggested. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Receptive Language, Scores
Peer reviewedSchmitt, Norbert; Meara, Paul – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
English-as-a-Second-Language students in Japan were tested at the beginning and the end of the school year to examine changes in word associations and grammatical suffix knowledge. Results showed an average vocabulary gain of 330 words, a poor knowledge of the allowable suffixes for the verbs learned, and 19 to 25 percentage points more receptive…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Associative Learning, English (Second Language), Expressive Language
