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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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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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Measuring English vocabulary size via computerized adaptive testing

Computers & Education, 2016
Measuring English vocabulary size in EFL contexts normally requires a large number of test items and relies on paper-and-pencil (PP the second phase undertook an experiment to compare various termination conditions in both the PP the third phase examined the accuracy and efficiency of the two test modes in classifying test-takers into mastery and non ...
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Polish Vocabulary Size Test (PVST)

The project is dedicated to the novel Polish Vocabulary Size Test development based on Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) and Item Response Testing (IRT).
Płużyczka, Monika, Danił, Golovin, Gregory   +2 more
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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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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. The shorter version with 177 Chinese university students in three proficiency levels indicates that
Ping Zhao, Xiaoli Ji
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Vocabulary Learning Strategies, Reading Habits and Vocabulary Size Test [PDF]

, 2013
This paper discusses two important parts of language learning, the vocabulary acquisition and the reading skill, where the focus is on vocabulary learning strategies. One part also discusses the vocabulary size tests, the purpose and use of measuring that specific knowledge, what types of tests help observe vocabulary development, their purpose in ...
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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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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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