The development of vocabulary breadth across the CEFR levels
The development of vocabulary breadth across the CEFR levels
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跨 CEFR 级别词汇广度的发展
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2010
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James Milton
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本章试图将词汇广度（即学习者掌握的外语单词数量）与欧洲语言共同参考框架（CEFR）的六个级别联系起来。框架文件（欧洲委员会，2001）的详细信息表明，词汇广度应该是描述级别的有用指标，并且从广义上讲，随着语言水平的提高，学习者的词汇知识和词汇使用的复杂程度也会随之提高。我们对词汇量测试中获得的证据进行了审查并证实了这一假设，并提出了与每个 CEFR 级别相关的实际词汇量。这些信息对于学习者、教师和 CEFR 的其他用户来说应该非常有用，有助于将语言表现与 CEFR 水平联系起来。证据似乎还表明，一种语言与另一种语言之间的词汇广度可能有所不同，但尚不清楚这是否反映了语言本身之间的差异，或者反映了词汇量测试所依据的语料库结构的差异。
This chapter attempts to attach measurements of vocabulary breadth, the number of words a learner knows in a foreign language, to the six levels of the Common European Framework of reference for Languages (CEFR). The details of the Framework document (Council of Europe, 2001) indicate that vocabulary breadth ought to be a useful metric in the description of the levels and that, broadly, it would be expected that as language level increases so would the learner’s knowledge of vocabulary and the sophistication with which that vocabulary can be used. The evidence we have from vocabulary size tests is reviewed and confirms this assumption, and suggests the actual volumes of vocabulary that are associated with each CEFR level. This information should be very useful to learners, teachers and other users of the CEFR is helping to link language performance to the CEFR levels. The evidence also appears to suggest that vocabulary breadth may vary from one language to another but it is not yet clear whether this reflects differences between the languages themselves, or differences in the construction of the corpora from which vocabulary size tests are derived.