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Rümeysa Kaya; Bayram Çetin – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2025
In this study, the cut-off scores obtained from the Angoff, Angoff Y/N, Nedelsky and Ebel standard methods were compared with the 50 T score and the current cut-off score in various aspects. Data were collected from 448 students who took Module B1+ English Exit Exam IV and 14 experts. It was seen that while the Nedelsky method gave the lowest…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Cutting Scores, Exit Examinations, Academic Achievement
Hae In Park – English Teaching, 2024
The present study aimed to validate a 70-item Korean bilingual version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) using Rasch modeling. The goal was to assess the applicability of this Korean version of the VST for Korean learners of English in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context by examining validity evidence based on Messick's framework.…
Descriptors: Korean, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zari Saeedi; Hessameddin Ghanbar; Mahdi Rezaei – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
Despite being a popular topic in language testing, cognitive load has not received enough attention in vocabulary test items. The purpose of the current study was to scrutinize the cognitive load and vocabulary test items' differences, examinees' reaction times, and perceived difficulty. To this end, 150 students were selected using…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Items, Difficulty Level, Vocabulary Development
Pablo 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
Güngör, Burcu; Önder, Alev – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The aim of this study was to construct and validate "English Picture Vocabulary Test (EPVT)" that aimed to assess the very young learners' (VYLs) receptive and expressive vocabulary knowledge for specific content areas in English as a foreign language (EFL). In this context, EPVT was created in several stages. One of…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Carmen Muñoz; Anastasia Pattemore; Daniela Avello – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Repeated viewing of the same video is a common strategy among autonomous language learners as well as a much used pedagogical strategy among foreign language (FL) teachers. Learners may watch the same video more than once, to increase global comprehension of the target language or to focus their attention on linguistic aspects, such as new…
Descriptors: Captions, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tim Stoeckel; Tomoko Ishii – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
In an upcoming coverage-comprehension study, we plan to assess learners' meaning-recall knowledge of words as they occur in the study's reading passage. As several meaning-recall test formats exist, the purpose of this small-scale study (N = 10) was to determine which of three formats was most similar to a criterion interview regarding mean score…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Classification
Zaretsky, Eugen; Lange, Benjamin P. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2023
Bilingual children with a limited command of the second language (L2) often yield unsatisfactory results in L2-based non-word repetition tasks (NWRT) for the assessment of working memory. In this study, monolinguals (MO) and bilinguals (BI) of preschool age acquiring German were compared in regard to their performance on German-based NWRT to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Masrai, Ahmed – SAGE Open, 2022
Vocabulary size measures serve important functions, not only with respect to placing learners at appropriate levels on language courses but also with a view to examining the progress of learners. One of the widely reported formats suitable for these purposes is the Yes/No vocabulary test. The primary aim of this study was to introduce and provide…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Abashidze, Dato; McDonough, Kim; Gao, Yang – Second Language Research, 2022
Recent research that explored how input exposure and learner characteristics influence novel L2 morphosyntactic pattern learning has exposed participants to either text or static images rather than dynamic visual events. Furthermore, it is not known whether incorporating eye gaze cues into dynamic visual events enhances dual pattern learning.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
Jahangard, Ali – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
One of the most interesting studies on the role of L1 and contrastive analysis in vocabulary teaching is by Laufer and Girsai (2008). However, due to some methodological issues, their research findings are open to criticism and controversy. The current study aimed to replicate the research with a more rigorous design to re-investigate the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chang, Anna C-S; Chen, Brandt T-Y – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
This study compared the multidimensional effects of written and oral vocabulary exercises on EFL learners' retention of single-word items (SWI) and multi-word items (MWI). Two teaching experiments (times) were conducted with 54 college students, who studied four themed-based texts, two at a time. A total of 60 unfamiliar vocabulary items, 30 in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Oral Language, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
Ali Mansoor, Ali Ahmed; Mohammed, Othman Saleh Mahdy; Ahmed, Hazhar Ramadhan; Munasser Awadh, Awadh Nasser; Abdulfatah, Hameed Mohammed; Sheikh, Ebrahim Yahay – Cogent Education, 2023
Vocabulary is the kernel for all language skills; it helps learners to interact with the speakers of that language. This study aims to scrutinize the effect of a short story on developing students' vocabulary. It is an out-product of fieldwork to figure out the useful points for teaching and learning vocabulary through short stories. The test was…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Vicky Chondrogianni; Morna Butcher – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study investigated the psycholinguistic and child-related variables that modulate vocabulary development and the so-called receptive-expressive gap in child L2 learners of Gaelic with English as their L1. In total, 50 6- to 8-year-old English-Gaelic bilingual children attending Gaelic-medium immersion education were administered the English…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Children, Bilingual Students, English
Sun, Hanzhong; Fang, Shaohua – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
There has been a plethora of studies investigating the effect of semantic relatedness on second language (L2) word learning.However, most prior studies failed to control for the lexical properties of target words, which may be responsible for the mixed results yielded. This study, therefore, sets out to revisit this issue by controlling for L1…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)