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    The document discusses testing vocabulary and provides various techniques and item types that can be used. It notes that vocabulary should be tested to evaluate students' knowledge and understanding. There are two main types of vocabulary - active and passive. Limited response items and multiple choice items are described as common testing methods. For multiple choice questions, best practices are outlined such as using distractors that are contextually related but incorrect. Different testing techniques are also presented, such as fill-in-the-blank, matching words with definitions, antonyms, sentence completion, and finding the odd one out in a list.

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    The document discusses testing vocabulary and provides various techniques and item types that can be used. It notes that vocabulary should be tested to evaluate students' knowledge and understanding. There are two main types of vocabulary - active and passive. Limited response items and multiple choice items are described as common testing methods. For multiple choice questions, best practices are outlined such as using distractors that are contextually related but incorrect. Different testing techniques are also presented, such as fill-in-the-blank, matching words with definitions, antonyms, sentence completion, and finding the odd one out in a list.

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    The document discusses testing vocabulary and provides various techniques and item types that can be used. It notes that vocabulary should be tested to evaluate students' knowledge and understanding. There are two main types of vocabulary - active and passive. Limited response items and multiple choice items are described as common testing methods. For multiple choice questions, best practices are outlined such as using distractors that are contextually related but incorrect. Different testing techniques are also presented, such as fill-in-the-blank, matching words with definitions, antonyms, sentence completion, and finding the odd one out in a list.

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    Testing vocabulary

    Presented by : Warda Saleh Abdullah /13584


    Contents

    • Why should we test vocabulary?


    • What’s the type of vocabulary?
    • Which type of vocabulary should be test?
    • Sources of words to test.
    • How to test vocabulary?
    • Item types of testing vocabulary.
    • Why should we test vocabulary?
    • What’s the types of vocabulary?
    - Active vocabulary
    - passive vocabulary
    • Which type of vocabulary should be test?
    Sources of words to test

    • A course syllabus.
    • The words that students misuse in written work and speaking.
    • Textbook , Exercise manual
    • Classroom language.
    Don’ts Dos
    • Don’t have your students • Teach students to find the
    memorize word-lists meaning of words through the
    • Don’t present words in isolation. content.

    • Don’t use difficult grammatical • Help increase comprehension by


    structures. teaching important affixes (happy-
    unhappy; beauty-beautiful)
    Types of testing vocabulary
    1-Limited response:
    a. individual testing :
    • Please go to the window
    • Please hand be a chalk
    • Touch your hand/nose /etc
    Types of testing vocabulary

    2- limited response- group testing


    • A good way is to use pictures.
    • Use commands.
    • Match sentences with pictures.
    Limited response

    Advantages Disadvantages
    • Less stress or nervousness. • Individual testing takes longer
    • Avoids skills such as reading and time than group testing.
    writing. • Difficult to test abstract words.
    • Can be scored easily and • Sketches are sometimes
    objectively. ambiguous.
    2- Multiple choice items
    • Give teachers a chance to test passive vocabulary.
    • It’s a good way to test more difficult vocabulary items.
    • It’s usually only content words are included in vocabulary test.
    Types of multiple choice items
    1. Definition
    Example:
    Nap is….
    A. A brief sleep
    B. A happy song
    C. A sharp rock
    D. A short meeting
    2. Completion 3. Paraphrase

    Example: Example:
    The old woman was too ___________ to push Open the George was astounded to hear her answer
    heavy door. A. Greatly amused
    A. Feeble B. Greatly relieved
    B. Sincere C. Greatly surprised
    C. Deaf D. Greatly angered
    D. Harsh
    The best distractors for vocabulary items are
    either:
    • Words that have similar meaning to the correct word but which are
    inappropriate in context
    • Words that are contextually related but which don’t fit in the context
    • Distractors should be of similar level of difficulty
    • Distractors should be the same part of speech
    • Don’t use opposites as distractor.
    • Distractors should be of similar length
    MC items. Identify the mistakes

    1. She had to help the ________old man up the stairs.

    A. weak B. slowly

    C. try D. wisdom

    2. She needs to get up earlier so she’s buying an _________clock.

    B. time B. alarm

    B. watch D. bell
    3. They needed lots of training to operate such __________equipment.

    A. easy B. sophisticated

    C. blue D. wisdom

    4. She sent me the _________yesterday.

    B. letter B. gift

    C. food D. book
    5. They drove to work in their new__________.

    A. House B. car C. office D. street

    6. He just hit his shin.

    B. leg B. cousin C. fender D. fruit

    7. He plans to_________ some candy for his mother as a birthday present.

    C. make B. buy C. sell D. steal


    8. Alan is a very _______ student.

    A. quite C. quiet

    B. quit D. quid

    9. That boy is very unusual; he’s a genius.

    C. Can see the future


    D. Has received much money
    E. Has unusual mental, inventive and creative ability
    F. Has a terrible illness
    Other techniques can use to testing vocabulary

    A. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words taken from the list given.

    Fever pains treatment recovery diagnoses [L1]

    1) His father is undergoing ___________for cancer.


    2) The two doctors made different _______of my disease.
    3) The patient has made a rapid______
    4) My _______is gone, but I still have a cough.
    5) The patient complains of severe _______in her chest.
    A. Choose a verb that goes with all 3 nouns/phrases below.

    Pass spend take

    1. ________a trip/ a photo / a bus


    2. ________ time/ money/ a day doing something
    3. ________ an exam/ a test / the time

    B. Circle the correct option to complete the sentence.

    1. Sally didn’t realize that she had broken/countered/denied the law.


    2. The police have banned/cancelled/refused parking in this street.
    3. I must remember to get a/an agreement/license permission for my television
    A. Write the opposites of the following adjectives using negative prefixes.
    1. Loyal__________
    2. Logical _______
    3. Organized_______

    B. Finish the sentences by writing the correct form of the word in brackets.
    1. The _______(deep) of the swimming pool is 2 meters
    2. Mrs. Brown was a kind _______(mother) woman.
    Definitions

    A. Complete the gaps using given clue.


    1. He repairs things made of wood- c________
    2. If you want to leave a job, you r_________.
    3. He carries your bags for you in hotel. P_____
    4. Synonym of ‘fire somebody from job’ is. to s_______ somebody

    Odd one out

    B. Which word is not connected with the others?


    1. Soup pizza hamburger bowl
    2. Eyelid forehead backache nostril
    3. Waiter plumber passenger baker
    Conclusion

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