Assessing L2 vocabulary through multiple-choice, matching, gap-fill, and word formation items
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Multiple-Choice Test Items of Foreign Language Vocabulary
This paper reviews the various multiple-choice formats used in testing foreign language vocabulary with special reference to the underlying constructs of vocabulary competence. While all formats are argued to categorically measure recognition of second language word meaning, they are claimed to differ with respect to whether they measure receptive recognition or productive recognition, followin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2450-4580,0137-4699
DOI: 10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.3.155-166