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Monster, Iris; Tellings, Agnes; Burk, William J.; Keuning, Jos; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language Testing, 2021
Word knowledge acquisition is an incremental process that relies on exposure. As a result, word knowledge can broadly range from recognizing the word's lexical status, to knowing its meaning in context, and to knowing its meaning independent of context. The present study aimed to model incremental word knowledge in 1454 upper primary school…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Task Analysis
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Fitzpatrick, Tess; Clenton, Jon – Language Testing, 2010
This paper assesses the performance of a vocabulary test designed to measure second language productive vocabulary knowledge.The test, Lex30, uses a word association task to elicit vocabulary, and uses word frequency data to measure the vocabulary produced. Here we report firstly on the reliability of the test as measured by a test-retest study, a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Construct Validity, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency