Developing a vocabulary size test in Greek as a foreign language
James Milton, Thomaï Alexiou · 2010
This paper presents a vocabulary size test in Greek as a foreign language derived from the first 5000 lemmatised words of the Hellenic National Corpus. It is designed as a Greek version of Meara and Milton’s (2003) X-Lex checklist test which has test forms in a number of other languages. Such a test should provide useful information to both learners and teachers of Greek as a foreign language in an important area of language knowledge, and should help indicate both student level and measure learning progress. The test has been trialled on learners of Greek at CEFR A1, A2, B1 and B2 levels in the School of Modern Greek, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Results suggest that the test works reliably, has good construct validity and provides estimates of vocabulary size which are believable and fit well with estimates of vocabulary size at CEFR levels in other languages.