Assessing Receptive and Productive Vocabulary

The relationship between receptive and productive second language vocabulary is unclear and indistinct. This title reviews various pedagogical receptive and productive vocabulary assessment tools and the theoretical assumptions underlying them to determine their reliability and applicability. The State Rating Task, based on Multi-State models of vocabulary acquisition, is presented as an alternative assessment tool for the measurement of low-stakes receptive and productive second language vocabulary.

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Dr. Rob Waring is an acknowledged expert in second language vocabulary acquisition and extensive reading. He is an Executive Board member of the Extensive Reading Foundation. He works at Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama, Japan.