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The Use of Letter Prompts in Vocabulary Size Tests

Korean Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013
This study examines the score inflation of vocabulary size tests in conjunction with the use of letters in the item response component. The letter prompt is used to constrain test taker responses to target vocabulary, but may also have the unintended consequence of assisting test takers in answering test items.
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Comparing Phonological and Orthographic Vocabulary Size: Do Vocabulary Tests Underestimate the Knowledge of Some Learners?

The Canadian Modern Language Review, 2006
Abstract: Any description of what it means to know a word in a foreign language is likely to include recognition of form, both how a word sounds when heard and what it looks like when written. However, tests of vocabulary knowledge focus almost exclusively on the written form of the word.
James Milton, Nicola Hopkins
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The I Don't Know Option in the Vocabulary Size Test

TESOL Quarterly, 2013
The current study evaluates guessing behaviors in a vocabulary size test (VST) and examines whether including an I don't know in a VST may have an impact on the results of the test. One‐hundred‐fifty first‐year students at a university in China took part in the study. They were randomly assigned to three groups.
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Effects of L1 definitions and cognate status of test items on the Vocabulary Size Test

Language Testing, 2012
This study examines the development and evaluation of a bilingual Vocabulary Size Test (VST, Nation, 2006). A bilingual (English–Russian) test was developed and administered to 121 intermediate proficiency EFL learners (native speakers of Russian), alongside the original monolingual (English-only) version of the test.
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Measuring receptive vocabulary size: reliability and validity of the Yes/No Vocabulary Test

2004
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Vocabulary size and depth as predictors of second language speaking ability

System, 2021
Mostafa Janebi Enayat, Ali Derakhshan
exaly  

Investigating the role of vocabulary size in second language speaking ability

Language Teaching Research, 2020
Jon Clenton, Takumi Uchihara
exaly  

The Vocabulary Size Placement Test

2014
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Size and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge: What the Research Shows

Language Learning, 2014
Norbert Schmitt
exaly  

7 Vocabulary Size and Tests

2005
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