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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.

Testing and Assessing English Word-Formation

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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The paper discusses the testing/assessment of word-formation skills in thresholdlevel (B1) learners. To determine the suitability and use of productive...

Testing and Assessing English Word-Formation

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 290 - 297

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0033

Keywords
assessment, CEFR, error analysis, testing, word-formation

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Testing and Assessing English Word-Formation

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 290 - 297

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0033

Keywordsassessment, CEFR, error analysis, testing, word-formation

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
assessment, CEFR, error analysis, testing, word-formation