Assessing Receptive and Productive Vocabulary: Explorations in Second Langauge Vocabulary Acquisition

The relationship between receptive and productive second language vocabulary is unclear and indistinct. This title reviews various pedagogical receptive and productive vocabulary assessment tools and the theoretical assumptions underlying them to determine their reliability and applicability. The State Rating Task, based on Multi-State models of vocabulary acquisition, is presented as an alternative assessment tool for the measurement of low-stakes receptive and productive second language vocabulary.