Abstract
The research was conducted to examine whether lexical decision task can be employed to measure the English vocabulary knowledge of EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners. Two tasks were used in the research. One was a traditional vocabulary measurement task, in which subjects were asked to translate the English words into Chinese. The other was an English lexical decision task, in which subjects were asked to distinguish words from pseudowords. The performances in the two tasks were highly correlated, and each one was also correlated with the English scores in the college entrance exams and the scores of an NCU-administered English proficiency test. The results demonstrated that English vocabulary knowledge of an EFL learner can be measured by lexical decision task.
| Keywords: | vocabulary assessment; English learning; bilingualism |
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