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Longitudinal measurement of growth in vocabulary size using Rasch-based test equating

Language Testing in Asia, 2022
The purpose of this study is to equate and further validate three forms of the vocabulary size test (VST) created by Aizawa and Mochizuki (2010). These three forms, VST 1, 2, and 3, were administered to a cohort of 189 high school students ranging in age
Masaki Akase
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The Efficacies of an Explicit Vocabulary Instruction Model on ESL Learners’ Vocabulary Size and Writing Skills

Journal of Language and Education, 2021
Vocabulary size is believed to have positive correlations with learners’ language skills, reading comprehension, knowledge acquisition, and academic achievement.
Frankie Subon, Norseha Unin
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Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: issues with guessing and sampling rates [PDF]

, 2015
In most tests of vocabulary size, knowledge is assessed through multiple-choice formats. Despite advantages such as ease of scoring, multiple-choice tests (MCT) are accompanied with problems. One of the more central issues has to do with guessing and the
Gyllstad, Henrik, Schmitt, Norbert, Vilkaitė, Laura   +2 more
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Comparing Two Measures of L2 Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge Using their Relationship with Vocabulary Size

Journal of Language and Education, 2022
Background. This study compared two tests of second language (L2) depth of vocabulary knowledge, namely the word association test (WAT) and vocabulary knowledge scale (VKS), with respect to their associations with vocabulary size. The same relationships
Ali Dabbagh, Mostafa Janebi Enayat
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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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The Relationship between Vocabulary Size and Depth for Iranian EFL Learners at Different Language Proficiency Levels [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
The present study investigated the association between vocabulary size and depth of Iranian EFL learners at different language proficiency levels. Additionally, the extent that this relationship could be different for lowand high-word-frequency bands ...
Mostafa Janebi Enayat, Seyed Mohammad Reza Amirian   +1 more
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How many words do we know?Practical estimates of vocabulary size dependent on word definition, the degree of language input and the participant’s age

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Based on an analysis of the literature and a large scale crowdsourcing experiment, we estimate that an average 20 year old native speaker of American English knows 42,000 lemmas and 4,200 non-transparent multiword expressions, derived from 11,100 word ...
Marc Brysbaert, Michaël Stevens, Paweł Mandera, Emmanuel Keuleers   +3 more
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Development of a Computerized-Adaptive Test to Measure English Vocabulary Size with IRT

Indonesian Journal on Learning and Advanced Education (IJOLAE), 2023
To speak English fluently like a native speaker, having a vocabulary of 20,000 words are required. In many universities in Indonesia, Vocabulary Size Test (VST) is still held with Paper-Based Test (PBT), so it is less effective and efficient. The aims of
Andhita Dessy Wulansari, Dhinuk Puspita Kirana, Restu Mufanti   +2 more
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Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words [PDF]

, 2012
We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all languages and chronological subsets of the data we confirm that two scaling regimes
A Clauset, A Gnedin, A Vespignani, AA Tsonis, AL Barabási, AM Petersen, B Mandelbrot, B Podobnik, B Podobnik, D Fu, D Helbing, D Lazer, DC van Leijenhorst, E Alvarez-Lacalle, EA Altmann, EG Altmann, EG Altmann, GB West, GW Oehlert, HA Makse, HAJrJSA Makse, HD Rozenfeld, HD Rozenfeld, J Gao, J-B Michel, JA Evans, L Lü, LAN Amaral, LAN Amaral, LMA Bettencourt, M Batty, M Kleiber, M Markosova, M Riccaboni, M Sigman, M Steyvers, MA Montemurro, MEJ Newman, MHR Stanley, MÁ Serrano, R Ferrer i Cancho, R Ferrer i Cancho, R Ferrer i Cancho, RN Mantegna, S Bernhardsson, S Bernhardsson, S Karlin, SK Baek, X Gabaix   +48 more
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Assessing the relationship between Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) and reading comprehension

Studies in English Language and Education, 2017
It has been considered crucial about how vocabulary knowledge in relation with reading comprehension. This research was conducted to explore the link of Indonesian students Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) performance and their reading textbook on reading ...
Alpino Susanto
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