A framework for second language vocabulary assessment
A framework for second language vocabulary assessment
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第二语言词汇评估框架
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2001
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C. Chapelle
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J. Read;C. Chapelle
词汇测试被用于广泛的教学和研究目的，但我们缺乏一个全面的基础，以评估目前的工具或开发新的词汇措施，为未来。本文提出了一个框架，作为其出发点的测试目的的分析，然后显示如何可以系统地与测试设计的目的。两者之间的联系是基于来自Messick（1989）验证理论的三个考虑：结构定义，性能摘要和报告，以及测试演示。该框架的组成部分说明了整个参考八个著名的词汇量的措施;对于每一个有一个描述其设计和分析其目的。本文认为，词汇测试的发展方向是在测试的设计和验证中考虑测试的目的，以及考虑一种互动的方法来构建定义。这意味着词汇测试应该要求学习者在语境限制下完成任务，这些语境限制与对他们词汇能力的推断有关。
Vocabulary tests are used for a wide range of instructional and research purposes but we lack a comprehensive basis for evaluating the current instruments or developing new lexical measures for the future. This article presents a framework that takes as its starting point an analysis of test purpose and then shows how purpose can be systematically related to test design. The link between the two is based on three considerations which derive from Messick’s (1989) validation theory: construct definition, performance summary and reporting, and test presentation. The components of the framework are illustrated throughout by reference to eight well-known vocabulary measures; for each one there is a description of its design and an analysis of its purpose. It is argued that the way forward for vocabulary assessment is to take account of test purposes in the design and validation of tests, as well as considering an interactionalist approach to construct definition. This means that a vocabulary test should require learners to perform tasks under contextual constraints that are relevant to the inferences to be made about their lexical ability.