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Given the central role of vocabulary in language acquisition and use, a whole range of procedures is needed to assess learners' developing vocabulary ability in a second language. Much depends on the purpose of the assessment. For beginning and intermediate learners, who are building their core knowledge of high‐frequency words, recognition and recall formats have an important role in monitoring their lexical development. Such formats are also useful in placement and diagnostic tests. However, as learners' competence in the second language advances, we need to assess their ability to draw on their vocabulary resources effectively for functional communication by means of comprehension and use tasks.

SEE ALSO: Assessment of Reading; Assessment of Writing; Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching; Formulaic Language and Collocation; Teaching Vocabulary; Vocabulary and Language for Specific Purposes