New Directions In Vocabulary Testing.

There have been great strides made in research on vocabulary in the last 30 years. However, there has been relatively little progress in the development of new vocabulary tests. This may be due in some degree to the impressive contributions made by tests such as the Vocabulary Levels Test (Nation, 1...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:RELC Journal Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 263 - 278
Autores principales: Webb, Stuart A., Sasao, Yosuke
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications, Ltd. Dec2013
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=92867173&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 92867173
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00336882
        5NY
      jtl: RELC Journal
      issn: 00336882
      maglogo: Y
    pubinfo:
      dt: Dec2013
      vid: 44
      iid: 3
      pid: 2171
      pub: Sage Publications, Ltd.
    artinfo:
      ui:
        92867173
        10.1177/0033688213500582
      ppf: 263
      ppct: 15
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: New Directions In Vocabulary Testing.
      aug:
        au:
          Webb, Stuart A.
          Sasao, Yosuke
      su:
        Vocabulary
        Language ability testing
        Outcome-based education
        Theory of knowledge
        Linguistics
        Justification (Theory of knowledge)
      sug:
        subj:
          Vocabulary
          Language ability testing
          Outcome-based education
          Theory of knowledge
          Linguistics
          Justification (Theory of knowledge)
      keyword:
        academic vocabulary
        affixes
        depth of vocabulary knowledge
        guessing from context
        Vocabulary Levels Test
      ab: There have been great strides made in research on vocabulary in the last 30 years. However, there has been relatively little progress in the development of new vocabulary tests. This may be due in some degree to the impressive contributions made by tests such as the Vocabulary Levels Test (Nation, 1983; Schmitt et al., 2001) and the Word Associates Test (Read, 1993, 1998). In this report, an argument is made that there is a need for the development of new vocabulary tests. The justification for the development of new tests will be discussed and four new tests that are in different stages of development will be briefly introduced. The first two expand on the contributions of the Vocabulary Levels Test. One is a new version of the Vocabulary Levels Test and the other measures knowledge of the different sublists of Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List. The second two tests measure a different aspect of vocabulary knowledge, vocabulary learning proficiency. The Guessing from Context Test was designed to measure the ability to guess words in context and the Word Part Levels Test measures knowledge of affixes.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2013
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N