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A vocabulary-size test of controlled productive ability

Batia Laufer

English Department, University of Haifa

Paul Nation

English Language Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Paul.Nation{at}vuw.ac.nz

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.

Language Testing, Vol. 16, No. 1, 33-51 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/026553229901600103
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