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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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One Size Fits All? Francophone Learners and English Vocabulary Tests

The Canadian Modern Language Review, 2000
Which need is greater, the need for standard measures of vocabulary knowledge, or the need for vocabulary measures tailored to learners' first languages (L1s)? This question is explored using placement test data from more than 1,000 Francophone students entering English language courses at a francophone university in Montreal in 1997 and 1998.
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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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Measuring receptive vocabulary size: reliability and validity of the Yes/No Vocabulary Test

2004
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The Relationship Between Vocabulary Size and Vocabulary Depth: A Study of IELTS Test Takers in Pakistan

This study investigated the relationship between the vocabulary size and the vocabulary depth of Pakistan's undergraduate college and university IELTS test-takers. It follows the correlation study. The receptive vocabulary size and the vocabulary depth were accumulated from one hundred ninety-one undergraduate IELTS test takers.
Aman, Shumaila, Shakir, Aleem, Tazeen, Hafsa   +2 more
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Bilingual Vocabulary Size Test of Eastern Armenian for English speakers

This is a vocabulary size test for adult learners of Eastern Armenian (EA) who know English. It estimates the written receptive vocabulary knowledge of EA learners of beginning through upper-intermediate proficiency levels.
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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
Takumi Uchihara, Jon Clenton
exaly  

Validation of a bilingual version of the vocabulary size test: comparison with the monolingual version

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Hossein Karami
exaly  

Effects of L1 definitions and cognate status of test items on the Vocabulary Size Test

Language Testing, 2013
Irina Elgort
exaly