Testing and Assessing English Word-Formation

• Autorzy: Andrej Stopar
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The paper discusses the testing/assessment of word-formation skills in thresholdlevel (B1) learners. To determine the suitability and use of productive gap-fill exercises at this level, an example of a word-formation exercise is addressed from the following perspectives: word frequency (corpus data), morphological complexity (morpheme types and wordformation processes), syntactic environments (typical sentence and/or phrase patterns), analysis of statistical data (facility values) and test-takers’ errors. The text also addresses some implications of the findings for the instruction of lexis.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

assessment; CEFR; error analysis; testing; word-formation

• Wydawca: Sciendo
• Czasopismo: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: 11
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 290-297

Daty

wydano

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Twórcy

autor

Andrej Stopar

• Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0033