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A vocabulary-size test of controlled productive ability
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It is important in the design of the vocabulary component of a teaching program that teachers are able to discover the state of their learners’ vocabulary knowledge. It is also important that researchers can draw on a variety of vocabulary measures to investigate the nature of vocabulary growth. This study focuses on a controlled production measure of vocabulary consisting of items from five frequency levels, and using a completion item type like the following. The garden was full of fra flowers. The controlled-production vocabulary-levels test was found to be reliable, valid (in that the levels distinguished between different proficiency groups) and practical. There was a satisfactory degree of equivalence between two equivalent forms of the test.
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- Authors
- Laufer, B., & Nation, P.
- Venue
- Language Testing
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1999-01
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 33-51
- ISSN
- 0265-5322 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-0946
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- W2047328202
- Cited by
- 780
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 8.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
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