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Estimations of Japanese university learners' English vocabulary sizes using the vocabulary size test
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014 Measuring students’ lexica is time-consuming, as one sitting of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) usually takes 4060 minutes. As a result, teachers would benefit from being able to make reasonable estimates from commonly available information.
Stuart McLean +2 more
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Test taking and DK use on the vocabulary size test
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014 This study continued an investigation of test strategy and usage of an ”I don’t know” (DK) option on the 20,000-word family, 100-item Vocabulary Size Test (VST, Nation & Beglar, 2007).
Dawn Lucovich
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021 As vocabulary plays an important part in L2 learning at the beginner level, investigation into vocabulary learning constitutes an essential part of second language acquisition research (Koda, 1989, Laufer, 1992, Meara, 1992).
Tsuyoshi Sato
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A review of four studies on measuring vocabulary knowledge
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to review each of the following four vocabulary studies: (1) Estimations of Japanese University Learners’ English Vocabulary Sizes Using the Vocabulary Size Test (VST), by Stuart McLean, Nicholas Hogg, and Brandon Kramer, (2)
Akiyo Hirai
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The impact of loanwords on the English–Japanese version of vocabulary size test
Vocabulary Learning and InstructionThe Vocabulary Size Test (VST) measures English learners’ decontextualised receptive vocabulary knowledge of written English and has nine bilingual versions with multiple-choice options written in other languages.
Ayako Aizawa
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"I don't know" use and guessing on the bilingual Japanese vocabulary size test: A preliminary report
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2015 This preliminary report outlines an investigation into ”I don’t know” use and guessing on the 14,000-word family, 140-item bilingual Japanese Vocabulary Size Test (VST) translated by Sasao and Nakata from the original monolingual English version.
Kurtis McDonald, Mayumi Asaba
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Development of a Computerized-Adaptive Test to Measure English Vocabulary Size with IRT [PDF]
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 +2 more
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Examining vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size among Syrian EFL learners [PDF]
Indonesian Journal of Applied LinguisticsResearch on vocabulary learning strategies plays a crucial role in understanding how individuals acquire and expand their vocabulary knowledge. While ample evidence indicates that Arab EFL learners possess a limited vocabulary size, there is a scarcity ...
Alaa Alnan, Hasliza Abd Halim
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An empirical examination of the effect of guessing on vocabulary size test scores
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2015 The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) was created to provide a reliable estimate of a second language learner’s written receptive vocabulary size, measuring from the most frequent fourteen 1,000 word families of the spoken subsection of the British National ...
Stuart McLean +2 more
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Assessing the German vocabulary size of elementary school students in Graubünden, Switzerland [PDF]
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für BildungswissenschaftenVocabulary size correlates strongly with general language proficiency and is highly predictive of academic skills. Frequency-based vocabulary tests, such as the German VST (‚Vocabulary Size Test‘; Institut für Testforschung und Testentwicklung, 2019 ...
Dominique Caglia, Erwin Tschirner
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