SECOND LANGUAGE VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: CURRENT PRACTICES AND NEW DIRECTIONS

SECOND LANGUAGE VOCABULARY ASSESSMENT: CURRENT PRACTICES AND NEW DIRECTIONS

This paper surveys some current developments in second language vocabulary assessment, with particular attention to the ways in which computer corpora can provide better quality information about the frequency of words and how they are used in specific contexts. The relative merits of different word...

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Main Author: John Read
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Murcia 2007-12-01
Series:International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
Subjects:
vocabulary tests
assessment
corpus analysis
word frequency
registers
vocabulary size
depth of vocabulary knowledge
contexts of use
Online Access:http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/49021

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