Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts

Finlayson, Natalie; Marsden, Emma; Anthony, Laurence

doi:10.1016/j.system.2023.103122

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The lexical content of high‐stakes national exams in French, German, and Spanish in England

Dudley,

Marsden

2024

Foreign Language Annals

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Surprisingly, little is known about the number and frequency level of words that beginner‐to‐low‐intermediate 16‐year‐old learners of French, German, and Spanish are expected to know when taking high‐stakes national exams in England. This study presents exploratory analyses of the lexical content of the listening and reading tests of these exams, a corpus totaling 116,647 running words. Specifically, it seeks to understand the number and frequency level of words that (a) this demographic seems to be expected to know and (b) could be needed for awarding organizations to create exams year‐on‐year. Key findings include that the proportion of low(er)‐frequency words in the corpus of exam papers seemed large, given the stage of the learners and the purpose of the assessments. Critically, these low(er)‐frequency words changed at a high rate between papers, likely incurring a heavy reliance on the lexical inferencing abilities of these relatively inexperienced language learners.

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The lexical content of high‐stakes national exams in French, German, and Spanish in England

Dudley,

Marsden

2024

Foreign Language Annals

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“…The listening and reading exams were profiled individually and then in sets grouped according to year, using the MultilingProfiler (http://multilingprofiler.net/; Finlayson et al, 2021;Finlayson et al,2023). To profile each text, we selected a frequency list, a language (French, German, or Spanish), and the level (top 5,000) from the drop-down menus; pasted the exam texts into the profile window; and then pressed "Download Stats (.csv)" to obtain lists (in .csv format) of the flemmas and their members used in the profiled text.…”

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The Lexical Content of High-Stakes National Exams in French, German, and Spanish in England

Dudley¹,

Marsden²

2023

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Surprisingly little is known about the number and frequency of words that beginner-to-low intermediate 16-year-old learners of French, German, and Spanish are expected to know when taking high-stakes national exams in England. This study presents exploratory analyses of the lexical content of the listening and reading tests of these exams, a corpus totalling 116,645 running words. Specifically, it seeks to understand the number and frequency of words that (a) this demographic seems to be expected to know and (b) could be needed for awarding organisations to create exams year on year. Key findings include that the proportion of low(er) frequency words in the corpus of exam papers seemed large, given the stage of the learners and the purpose of the assessments. Critically, these low(er)-frequency words changed at a high rate between papers, likely incurring a heavy reliance on the lexical inferencing abilities of these relatively inexperienced language learners.

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Eigenschaften von Hör- und Lesetexten in Hochschulzugangssprachtests am Beispiel der DSH

Möhring

2024

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Zusammenfassung Die DSH-Spezifikationen zu den Prüfungsteilen Hören und Lesen bieten den DSH-Standorten Anhaltspunkte zur Gestaltung von Inputtexten. Gleichzeitig verbleibt viel Spielraum zur konkreten Ausgestaltung von Texten und Aufgaben bei den DSH-Autorinnen und -Autoren und wenig ist über die Eigenschaften und die Vergleichbarkeit der an den Prüfungsstandorten genutzten Texte bekannt. In diesem Beitrag werden 115 authentische Hör- und Lesetexte von elf DSH-Standorten1 auf ihre Lesbarkeit und weitere lexikalische Eigenschaften hin untersucht.

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Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts

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The lexical content of high‐stakes national exams in French, German, and Spanish in England

The lexical content of high‐stakes national exams in French, German, and Spanish in England

The Lexical Content of High-Stakes National Exams in French, German, and Spanish in England

Eigenschaften von Hör- und Lesetexten in Hochschulzugangssprachtests am Beispiel der DSH

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