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Test taking and DK use on the vocabulary size test
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014 This study continued an investigation of test strategy and usage of an ”I don’t know” (DK) option on the 20,000-word family, 100-item Vocabulary Size Test (VST, Nation & Beglar, 2007).
Dawn Lucovich
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Estimations of Japanese university learners' English vocabulary sizes using the vocabulary size test
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014 Measuring students’ lexica is time-consuming, as one sitting of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) usually takes 4060 minutes. As a result, teachers would benefit from being able to make reasonable estimates from commonly available information.
Stuart McLean +2 more
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021 As vocabulary plays an important part in L2 learning at the beginner level, investigation into vocabulary learning constitutes an essential part of second language acquisition research (Koda, 1989, Laufer, 1992, Meara, 1992).
Tsuyoshi Sato
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Validating a pictorial vocabulary size test via the 3PL-IRT model
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2013 The paper presented a newly conceived vocabulary size test based on pictorial cues: Pictorial Vocabulary Size Test (PVST). A model-based (1-2-3 parameter logistic item response theory model comparisons) approach was taken to check which model could ...
Wen-Ta Tseng
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The polish vocabulary size test: A novel adaptive test for receptive vocabulary assessment. [PDF]
Behav Res MethodsAbstract We present the Polish Vocabulary Size Test (PVST), a novel tool for assessing the receptive vocabulary size of both native and non-native Polish speakers. Based on item response theory and computerized adaptive testing, PVST dynamically adjusts to each test-taker’s proficiency level, ensuring high accuracy while keeping the test ...
Fokin D, Płużyczka M, Golovin G.
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Correction: The Polish Vocabulary Size Test: A novel adaptive test for receptive vocabulary assessment. [PDF]
Behav Res MethodsFokin D, Płużyczka M, Golovin G.
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Validation of the Vocabulary Size Test
Eğitimde ve Psikolojide Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Dergisi, 2022 The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) is one of the most commonly used assessment tools for measuring English vocabulary size in the field of language testing. Despite its common usage, only a limited number of validity and reliability studies have been carried out with regard to the VST. Besides, they were mostly predicated on the Rasch model.
Mustafa GÖKCAN, Derya ÇOBANOĞLU AKTAN
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A vocabulary-size test of controlled productive ability [PDF]
Language Testing, 1999 It is important in the design of the vocabulary component of a teaching program that teachers are able to discover the state of their learners' vocabulary knowledge. It is also important that researchers can draw on a variety of vocabulary measures to investigate the nature of vocabulary growth.
Batia Laufer, Paul Nation
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Exploring the Mental Lexicon of the Multilingual: Vocabulary Size, Cognate Recognition and Lexical Access in the L1, L2 and L3 [PDF]
, 2016 Recent empirical findings in the field of Multilingualism have shown that the mental lexicon of a language learner does not consist of separate entities, but rather of an intertwined system where languages can interact with each other (e.g.
Szabo, Cz.
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