Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency

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...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1600962025-05-22T05:09:04Z Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka Lexical Proficiency Lexical Competence Lexical Frequency Profile British National Corpus Lexical Semantic Connections L2 Learner Lexical Sophistication Word Form L2 Lexicon Word Frequency Values Lexical Diversity Automated Scoring Productive Vocabulary Tests Performance Assessment Proficient Language User Lexical Errors Lexical Measures Lexical Quality Lexical Density VST Developmental Indices Lexical Indices Human Scores Word Knowledge L2 Lexical Knowledge thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisition thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology 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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license. 2025-05-22T05:09:03Z 2025-05-22T05:09:03Z 2025-05-21T14:57:55Z 2019 book ONIX_20250521T155841_9781000711790_71 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102295 9781000711790 9780367337926 9781000712094 9781032086491 9780429321993 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160096 eng Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102295/1/9781000711790.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429321993 10.4324/9780429321993 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 145f86a5-a3ad-446b-b5b4-fde91e3b8641 9781000711790 9780367337926 9781000712094 9781032086491 9780429321993 Routledge 276 Oxford [...] open access
spellingShingle Lexical Proficiency
Lexical Competence
Lexical Frequency Profile
British National Corpus
Lexical Semantic Connections
L2 Learner
Lexical Sophistication
Word Form
L2 Lexicon
Word Frequency Values
Lexical Diversity
Automated Scoring
Productive Vocabulary Tests
Performance Assessment
Proficient Language User
Lexical Errors
Lexical Measures
Lexical Quality
Lexical Density
VST
Developmental Indices
Lexical Indices
Human Scores
Word Knowledge
L2 Lexical Knowledge
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisition
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka
Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency
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title_short Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency
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topic Lexical Proficiency
Lexical Competence
Lexical Frequency Profile
British National Corpus
Lexical Semantic Connections
L2 Learner
Lexical Sophistication
Word Form
L2 Lexicon
Word Frequency Values
Lexical Diversity
Automated Scoring
Productive Vocabulary Tests
Performance Assessment
Proficient Language User
Lexical Errors
Lexical Measures
Lexical Quality
Lexical Density
VST
Developmental Indices
Lexical Indices
Human Scores
Word Knowledge
L2 Lexical Knowledge
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisition
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
topic_facet Lexical Proficiency
Lexical Competence
Lexical Frequency Profile
British National Corpus
Lexical Semantic Connections
L2 Learner
Lexical Sophistication
Word Form
L2 Lexicon
Word Frequency Values
Lexical Diversity
Automated Scoring
Productive Vocabulary Tests
Performance Assessment
Proficient Language User
Lexical Errors
Lexical Measures
Lexical Quality
Lexical Density
VST
Developmental Indices
Lexical Indices
Human Scores
Word Knowledge
L2 Lexical Knowledge
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisition
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
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