Validating a Test to Measure Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

By J. Read. 2013

216 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Scott Andrew Crossley
2. Junyu Cheng
3. J. Matthews
4. K. Kyle
5. N. Schmitt
6. John Garras
7. Janice T W Ng
8. E. Peters

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Scott Andrew Crossley
2. K. Kyle
3. Junyu Cheng
4. J. Matthews
5. N. Schmitt
6. John Garras
7. Janice T W Ng
8. E. Peters

In Education

1. K. Kyle
2. Junyu Cheng
3. John Garras
4. J. Matthews
5. Janice T W Ng
6. N. Schmitt
7. Scott Andrew Crossley

Citations in the corpus

• Automatically Assessing Lexical Sophistication: Indices, Tools, Findings, and Application (2015, background): “Although an exact definition of lexical sophistication has yet to be agreed upon, the construct of lexical sophistication involves both the depth and breadth of lexical knowledge available to speakers, readers, and writers (Meara, 1996, 2005a; Read, 1998).”
• Contribution of morphological awareness and lexical inferencing ability to L2 vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension among advanced EFL learners: testing direct and indirect effects (2011, unknown): “To minimize the effect of blind guessing, which had been identified to constantly influence test-takers’ performance on the WAT (Read, 1998), in the present study participants were not informed of the exact number of correct answers; instead, they were encouraged to choose as many appropriate answer”
• The Word Part Levels Test (2017, unknown): “Well-researched tests include the Vocabulary Levels Test (Nation, 1983; Schmitt, Schmitt, & Clapham, 2001), Vocabulary Size Test (Beglar, 2010; Nation & Beglar, 2007), Eurocentres Vocabulary Size Test (Meara & Buxton, 1987), and Word Associates Test (Read, 1993, 1998).”
• The Word Associates Format: Validation evidence (2011, methodology): “For example, Read (1993, 1998) identified the WAF’s susceptibility to guessing as one of the main threats to its validity.”
• The relationship between three measures of L2 vocabulary knowledge and L2 listening and reading (2018, methodology): “Vocabulary depth was measured with an adapted version of the Word Associates Test (Read, 1998), which measured receptive knowledge of synonyms, polysemes, and collocations.”