Test taking and DK use on the vocabulary size test
This study continued an investigation of test strategy and usage of an ”I don’t know” (DK) option on the 20,000-word family, 100-item Vocabulary Size Test (VST, Nation & Beglar, 2007). Unlike previous studies, which reported on an L1 American English user (Lucovich, 2014), the participants in t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Castledown Publishers
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Vocabulary Learning and Instruction |
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| Online Access: | https://www.castledown.com/journals/vli/article/view/1669 |
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| Summary: | This study continued an investigation of test strategy and usage of an ”I don’t know” (DK) option on the 20,000-word family, 100-item Vocabulary Size Test (VST, Nation & Beglar, 2007). Unlike previous studies, which reported on an L1 American English user (Lucovich, 2014), the participants in this study were two L1 GreekL2 American English users. Each participant took the original and DK-added versions of the VST. A structured qualitative interview, based on Nagy, Herman, and Anderson’s (1985) word interview protocol and piloted in previous studies, asked the participants about their answers on the VST. This study aimed to discover how non-Japanese L1/non-English L1 test takers determined their answers, how they qualitatively perceived and used the DK option, and whether this differed from the L1 American English and L1 Japanese users of English. As in previous studies, the participants used the DK option only on unknown items where partial knowledge or test taking strategies were unusable.
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| ISSN: | 2981-9954 |