‘THE CAMBRIDGE LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT SERIES Series editor: |. Charles Alderson and iyle F Bachman. In this series Assessing Languages for Specific Purposes by Dan Douglas Assessing Reading by J. Charles Alderson Assessing Vocabulary John Read (ase eae 7 sel ALLEL CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESSPUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ‘The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom ‘The Edinburgh Huilding, Cambridge CR2 2RU, UK hicp://worw.cup.cam,aesuk 440 West 20th Street, New York, NY 100114211, USA. bep://www.cup.org 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia Ruiz de Alaredn 13, 28014 Madeld, Spain © Cambridge University Press 2000 ‘This book isin copyright, Subject to statutory exception and tothe provisions of relevant collective licensing ageeements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2000 Printed inthe United Kingdom atthe University Press, Cambridge ‘Typeface Utopia (The Enschede Font Foundry) 95/13 pt. System 3B2 fee} ‘catalogue recorafor this book is availabe from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data applied for ISBN 0 521 62182 8 hardback ISBN 0521 62741 9 paperback For my mother, Joyce ReadContents Series editors' preface Acknowledgements The place of vocabulary in language assessment The nature of vocabulary Research on vocabulary acquisition and use Research on vocabulary assessment Vocabulary tests: four case studies ‘The design of discrete vocabulary tests Comprehensive measures of vocabulary Further developments in vocabulary assessment References Index page ix 4 u7 150 169 222 252 27