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Direct linkPablo Robles-García; Stuart McLean; Jeffrey Stewart; Ji-young Shin; Claudia Helena Sánchez-Gutiérrez – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
Recent literature in the field of L2 vocabulary assessment has advocated for the development of written receptive vocabulary tests such as Vocabulary Levels Tests (VLTs) that use: (a) meaning-recall item formats, (b) a minimum of 40 item counts per 1,000-frequency band to improve level estimates, and (c) lemmas (not word-families) as the lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Test Validity, Test Construction, Vocabulary Development
Ding, Wenjun; Yu, Guoxing – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
This paper examined to what extent causal explanation speaking tasks (CESTs) are cognitively appropriate for assessing young language learners' (YLLs) L2 speaking. Ninety-six YLLs (48 from Grade 4 and 6 each) in China performed two CESTs in both L1 (Chinese) and L2 (English). They also completed receptive and productive L2 vocabulary size tests.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Native Language
Li, Chen-Hong – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
The Ministry of Education in Taiwan encourages universities to adopt English ability as an exit requirement for graduates. Nearly 65% of universities use the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) or other compatible standardized tests as an exit test for university graduates. However, it remains unclear what level of vocabulary knowledge a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Aviad-Levitzky, Tami; Laufer, Batia; Goldstein, Zahava – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
This article describes the development and validation of the new CATSS (Computer Adaptive Test of Size and Strength), which measures vocabulary knowledge in four modalities -- productive recall, receptive recall, productive recognition, and receptive recognition. In the first part of the paper we present the assumptions that underlie the test --…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Loakes, Deborah; Moses, Karin; Simpson, Jane; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
This article reports on the development and piloting of a vocabulary recognition test designed for Indigenous Australian children. The research is both application oriented and development oriented. The aims of the article are to determine how well the test is used as a test instrument and the extent to which children recognize vocabulary items in…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Word Recognition
Bruton, Anthony – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2009
There are normally two major research reasons for assessing second and foreign language (L2) knowledge: either to gauge a participant's actual level of competence/proficiency or to assess language development over a period of time. In testing, the corresponding contrasts are typically referred to as proficiency tests on the one hand and…
Descriptors: Criticism, Measures (Individuals), Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
