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How to test vocabulary?

Why test vocabulary?

What to test

TYpes of test.

Assessing vocabulary size

Doing action research

Testing provides a form of feedback.

Testing can be seen as a part of the recycling of vocabulary generally.

Testing for research purposes, for teacher in their own classrooms.

Most vocabulary test target only one or two aspects of word knowledge.

In some sentences learners to produce the correct form to recall them from long-term memory.

Consideration of validity and realiability are less of an issuein informal testing.

Where the main objetive is to motivate review and recycling.

Multiple choice test are a popular way of testing in that they are easy to score.

On the negative side, multiple choice test habe been criticised because:

Distractors:Ddepending of the number of possible answers there is one-in-three

Gap-fill

Test requiere learners to recall the word from memory in order to complete a sentence or a text.

C-test

the second half of every second word is deleted as shown overlaf.

Another variety of gap-fill test is asking them to convert words from one form to another so as to fit context .

Sometimes it is useful to assess the size of a learner`s vocabulary.

4,500 words is necessary for the Cambridge First Certificate examination.

One fairly crude measure is to use a dictionary and choose a random selection of words.

Other often ingenious ways of assessing vocabulary size is whithin the first two bands that is to say, whithin 1900 words.

Is a way of getting feedback on the teaching-learning proces.

Twenty words can be recalled a week after they have been introduced than assess a learners command of the present perfect over the same period of time.

SOME PRETEST:

To investigate different learning styles.

To investigate the effectiveness of differet necmonic techniques.

To investigate different ways of selecting word for presentation.

To investigate the effect of extensive reading on vocabulary acquisition.

To investigate vocabulary recording strategies.

To investigate the effect of guessing-from-context.

The investigate the effect of dictionary use.

Brayan Giovanni Guadarrama Zamora