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Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency (Paperback)
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Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
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This comprehensive account of performance-based assessment of L2
lexical proficiency analyzes and compares two of the primary
methods of evaluation used in the field and unpacks the ways in
which they tap into different dimensions of one model of lexical
competence and proficiency. This book builds on the latest research
on performance-based assessment, which has most recently pointed to
the application of more quantitative measures to L2 data, to
systematically explore the qualitative method of using human raters
in assessment exercises and the quantitative method of using
automatic computation of statistical measures of lexis and
phraseology. Supported by an up-to-date review of the existing
literature, both approaches' unique features are highlighted but
also compared to one another to provide a holistic overview of
performance-based assessment as it stands today at both the
theoretical and empirical level. These findings are exemplified in
a concluding chapter, which summarizes results from an empirical
study looking at a range of lexical and phraseological features and
human raters' scores of over 150 essays written by both L2 learners
of English and native speakers. Taken together, the volume
challenges existing tendencies within the field which attempt to
use one method to validate one another by demonstrating their
capacity to indicate very different elements of lexical
proficiency, thereby offering a means by which to better
conceptualize performance-based assessment of L2 vocabulary in the
future. This book will be of interest to students and researchers
working in second language acquisition and applied linguistics
research, particularly those interested in issues around
assessment, vocabulary acquisition, and language proficiency.
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