New article: Ha, H.T., Nguyen, D.T.B., & Stoeckel, T. (2025). Investigating LID in four test conditions - Do instructions, test formats and item positioning matter? Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 4(3), 100233:

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Israel killed Dr. Marwan Sultan, the Director of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza. They dropped a bomb on his home, murdering him, his wife, and their children. Everyone in this image was killed by Israel today. His crime? Being a doctor.

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Use AI to mark your meaning-recall vocabulary tests! Internal reliability and mean scores between humans and LLMs were comparable for GPT4o and Gemini 1.5. https://t.co/EVSCZQmTz5

Nice work, Sobul et al. (2021). Vocabulary breadth significantly predicted both the form and meaning of knowledge of English prefixes. Weekly hours of reading and communication in English contributed significantly to prefix knowledge.

L2 knowledge of English prefixes: The effect of vocabulary breadth and exposure - Suhad Sonbul, Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs, 2024

Language Testing Volume 41 Issue 4 is now available! The Special Issue of 2024: Open Science Practices in Language Testing and Assessment https://t.co/jAKA2pJEnC

Looking forward to reading. https://t.co/I5RL65CWm3

Knowledge of over 3000 word families is required for 95% coverage of popular English podcasts. https://t.co/IK5xweug5o

Frequency-based vocabulary tests provide a measure of knowledge of the vocabulary that is the most USEFUL within whatever corpus register is being used as the target of instruction.

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In task accuracy and communicative efficiency measurements, EFL learners who received pre-task communication strategy training outperformed the control group. Learners also used the targeted communication strategies in the speaking task. https://t.co/S3hSZlLqjb

For L2 vocabulary test items, the provision of extended context or semantic clues makes little difference.

The field has predominantly focused on form-meaning mapping of vocab knowledge. Time to move on. We present Lexicosemantic Judgement to measure/train *automatized* vocab knowledge to help our EFL students listen real-life L2 English. New publication is out https://t.co/a6lTe2Lq21

Elvis Wagner and Evelina Galaczi (co-editors of LAQ) are also the co-editors of a new handbook (along with Aaron Batty) focused on the role of listening in SLA, published on July 29th, 2024

#TBLT in Asia 2024 update: In addition to our three wonderful Plenary Speakers (Jonathan Newton, John Norris, Shoko Sasayama) we are happy to announce a special talk on Friday, July 5th by Rod Ellis. Details at https://t.co/4yaD9euZgB Make sure you're in Nagoya from July 5th-7th!

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https://t.co/ek6eIfW3M1 Listening and viewing (without subtitles) studies should probably refer to this study (sole study looking at lexical units when listening) instead of studies with read instruments when selecting a lexical unit (unless reading and listening are the same)