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Assessing depth of word knowledge of beginner learners of French, German, and Spanish aged 11-14 in England
- Abstract:
- This chapter focuses on the development of vocabulary achievement tests for young, beginner learners of French, German and Spanish as foreign languages. Key challenges at this level include: (1) identifying test items that correspond to appropriate aspects of word knowledge; (2) adapting the design of these items to the context of school pupils; (3) ensuring parity across learners and languages; (4) designing flexible tests that can be completed both in-class and online. We describe our test purpose and rationale, and present examples of items used in England’s National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP) tests which are currently being piloted in some of NCELP’s 45 networked schools and beyond.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 574.2KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/978-3-031-18950-0
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- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Host title:
- Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment
- Pages:
- 137-161
- Chapter number:
- 9
- Series:
- New Language Learning and Teaching Environments
- Place of publication:
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publication date:
- 2023-03-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-03-08
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2946-2940
- ISSN:
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2946-2932
- EISBN:
- 9783031189500
- ISBN:
- 9783031189494
- Language:
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English
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
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2419027
- Local pid:
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pubs:2419027
- Source identifiers:
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W4323058946
- Deposit date:
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2026-05-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Finlayson and Marsden
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Palgrave Macmillan at https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18950-0
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