Vocabulary testing in tourism proficiency exams

Proficiency tests 

Validity, reliability, practicability 

Tourism proficiency exams in Hungary

Why test vocabulary? 

 Vocabulary testing tasks

• MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST - easy to mark, difficult to design 
• GAP-FILLING - focus on content words, production is tested 
• CLOSE-TEST ( vocabulary or reading?)----> C-TEST
• WORD FORMATION 
• MATCHING AND DEFINITIONS

Research 

• vocabulary testing task types
• item analysis (discrete or context dependent)
• frequency of words ( K1, K2....)
• tourism keywords and collocations

References:

• Frost, R. (2005). Test writing.
• Hughes, A. (1989). Testing for Language Teachers.
• McNamara, T. (2000). Language testing.
• Rébék-Nagy, G. (2004). A magyarországi szaknyelvi vizsgák szintjei

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