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| Autor/in | Fairclough, Marta |
|---|---|
| Titel | Testing the lexical recognition task with Spanish/English bilinguals in the United States. |
| Quelle | In: Language testing, 28 (2011) 2, S. 273-297Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
| Beigaben | Abbildungen; Tabellen 4 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0265-5322 |
| Schlagwörter | Empirische Forschung; Erkennen; Test; Wortschatztest; Native Speaker; Vergleichende Analyse; Englisch; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Bilingualismus; Spanisch; Hochschule; Effizienz; USA |
| Abstract | The investigation intends to assess the effectiveness of a lexical recognition test (Meara & Buxton, 1987) as a placement tool that distinguishes among levels of two groups of students: Spanish heritage language learners (HLL) and second language learners (SLL). Three hundred and thirty university students from four different levels completed a 10-minute/200-word task based on Davies' (2006) Spanish frequency corpora. The results were compared to those from a control group of bilingual graduate students. As comparison measures, about half of the students completed a Cloze Test while the rest were asked to carry out a Multiple-task Test. The results of the study suggest that for SLL, and HLL at the lower levels of language ability, a lexical test based on the 5000 most frequent words in Spanish is a valid and practical testing tool that correlates with other measures of language proficiency. For more advanced levels of HLL, a wider range of words is necessary to avoid the ceiling effect. (Verlag, adapt.). |
| Erfasst von | Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg |
| Update | 2022/2 |
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