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The Development and Validation of a Bilingual Version of the Vocabulary Size Test

RELC Journal, 2012
This paper reports an attempt to develop and validate a bilingual Persian version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST). Due to the particular educational system in Iran, there is a dire need for a test that can effectively estimate English learners’ vocabulary sizes.
Hossein Karami
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Loanword proportion in vocabulary size tests

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
Abstract We investigated the effect of English-Hebrew loanwords on English vocabulary test scores when the number of loanwords in the test is random and when it is representative of their proportion in the vocabulary lists from which the test items were taken.
Batia Laufer, Tami Levitzky-Aviad
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LexArabic: A receptive vocabulary size test to estimate Arabic proficiency

Behavior Research Methods, 2023
Arabic is understudied in second-language research (L2) and lacks rapid and adequate tools for measuring proficiency. Drawing inspiration from LexTALE and its extensions, this study created and validated a quick receptive vocabulary size test to estimate L2 Arabic proficiency. In Experiment 1, the initial version of LexArabic was designed and evaluated
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Validation of the Mandarin Version of the Vocabulary Size Test

RELC Journal, 2016
This article provides preliminary validity evidence for the shorter Mandarin version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) under the content aspect, technical quality, substantive and generalizability aspect of Messick’s (1995) construct validity framework.
Ping Zhao, Xiaoli Ji
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A New Receptive Vocabulary Size Test for French

The Canadian Modern Language Review, 2016
Researchers have developed several tests of receptive vocabulary knowledge suitable for use with learners of English, but options are few for learners of French. This situation motivated the authors to create a new vocabulary size measure for French, the Test de la taille du vocabulaire (TTV).
Roselene Batista, Marlise Horst
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Developing an Integrated Diagnostic Test of Vocabulary Size and Depth

RELC Journal, 2009
■ Following growing interest in vocabulary acquisition, a number of researchers have proposed how learners' vocabulary knowledge can be measured both in terms of how many words they know (vocabulary size) and how well they know those words (depth of knowledge).
Tomoko Ishii, Norbert Schmitt
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Is Frequency Enough?: The Frequency Model in Vocabulary Size Testing

Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
Modern vocabulary size tests are generally based on the notion that the more frequent a word is in a language, the more likely a learner will know that word.
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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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Testing Vocabulary Knowledge: Size, Strength, and Computer Adaptiveness

Language Learning, 2004
In this article, we describe the development and trial of a bilingual computerized test of vocabulary size, the number of words the learner knows, and strength, a combination of four aspects of knowledge of meaning that are assumed to constitute a hierarchy of difficulty: passive recognition (easiest), active recognition, passive recall, and active ...
Batia Laufer, Zahava Goldstein
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A Rasch-based validation of the Vocabulary Size Test

Language Testing, 2009
The primary purpose of this study was to provide preliminary validity evidence for a 140-item form of the Vocabulary Size Test, which is designed to measure written receptive knowledge of the first 14,000 words of English. Nineteen native speakers of English and 178 native speakers of Japanese participated in the study.
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