[Corpora-List] megastudy knowledge of English words

[Marc Brysbaert]

Dear all,

 

On the basis of our corpus analyses we have a list of some 60 thousand
English words (mostly lemmas, no names). To find out how well these words
are known, we have set up a vocabulary test. It is based on the Y/N paradigm
in second language acquisition (Meara & Jones, 1987; Harrington & Carey,
2009; Fairclough, 2011; Lemhofer & Broersma, 2012; Izura, Cuetos, &
Brysbaert, 2014). You get a list of 100 words and nonwords and simply have
to indicate which English words you know (takes 4 minutes). Your scores are
corrected for the number of nonwords you say "yes" to.

 

Because the test is still in its testing phase, there is likely to be some
frustration. On the basis of our experiences with a similar test in Dutch
(500,000 participants thus far), we can expect that 1% of the words and 3%
of the nonwords are problematic. The best way to clear these is to make use
of the responses and feedback from the first few thousands of participants.

 

So, if you would be kind enough to do the test once, twice (or as many times
as you like; you get a different sample of words and nonwords each time you
run the test), that would be most appreciated. You find the test here:

 

http://vocabulary.ugent.be/

 

Please feel free to forward this message to students, colleagues, friends,
and family members.

 

 

REFERENCES

 

Fairclough, M. (2011). Testing the lexical recognition task with
Spanish/English bilinguals in the United States. Language Testing, 28,
273-297.

 

Harrington, M. & Carey, M. (2009). The on-line Yes/No test as a placement
tool. System, 37, 614-626.

 

Izura, C., Cuetos, F., & Brysbaert, M. (2014). Lextale-Esp: A test to
rapidly and efficiently assess the Spanish vocabulary size. Psicologica, 35,
49-66.

 

Lemhofer, K., & Broersma, M. (2012). Introducing LexTALE: A quick and valid
lexical test for advanced learners of English. Behaviour Research Methods,
44 

(2), 325-343.

 

Meara, P., & Jones, G. (1987). Test of vocabulary size in English as a
foreign language. Polyglot, 8 (1), 1-40. 

 

 

Best, marc brysbaert

 

 

Marc Brysbaert

Department of Experimental Psychology

Ghent University

Henri Dunantlaan 2

B-9000 Gent

Belgium

Tel. +32 9 264 94 25

Fax. +32 9 264 64 96

E-mal:  <mailto:marc.brysbaert at ugent.be> marc.brysbaert at ugent.be

Website:  <http://crr.ugent.be/members/marc-brysbaert>
http://crr.ugent.be/members/marc-brysbaert

 

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