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Direct linkGyllstad, Henrik; McLean, Stuart; Stewart, Jeffrey – Language Testing, 2021
The last three decades have seen an increase of tests aimed at measuring an individual's vocabulary level or size. The target words used in these tests are typically sampled from word frequency lists, which are in turn based on language corpora. Conventionally, test developers sample items from frequency bands of 1000 words; different tests employ…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Sample Size, Language Tests, Test Items
McLean, Stuart; Stewart, Jeffrey; Batty, Aaron Olaf – Language Testing, 2020
Vocabulary's relationship to reading proficiency is frequently cited as a justification for the assessment of L2 written receptive vocabulary knowledge. However, to date, there has been relatively little research regarding which modalities of vocabulary knowledge have the strongest correlations to reading proficiency, and observed differences have…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Tests, Language Proficiency, Test Items
Zhang, Su – Language Testing, 2006
This study applied generalizability theory to investigate the contributions of persons, items, sections, and language backgrounds to the score dependability of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). I replicated and extended Brown's (1999) study of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), using data from two…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Generalizability Theory, English (Second Language), Scores
