Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative Study
Adopting Weir’s (2005) socio-cognitive validation framework, the present paper focuses on the syntactic and lexical complexity of listening comprehension subtests in three B2-level examinations: The City Guilds international examination in English, The First Certificate in English, and the General M...
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| description | Adopting Weir’s (2005) socio-cognitive validation framework, the present paper focuses on the syntactic and lexical complexity of listening comprehension subtests in three B2-level examinations: The City Guilds international examination in English, The First Certificate in English, and the General Matura in English. By analysing and interpreting the results obtained from different automated tools, the research aims to determine to what extent the three subtests are comparable. The results of the study suggest the unreliability of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) as a sole mechanism for test comparisons. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b46975c54844f2e9e3d765e4a1638102022-12-22T01:55:16ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies1584-37342286-04282016-12-0113111612610.1515/rjes-2016-0015rjes-2016-0015Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative StudyIlc Gašper0Stopar Andrej1University of Ljubljana, SloveniaUniversity of Ljubljana, SloveniaAdopting Weir’s (2005) socio-cognitive validation framework, the present paper focuses on the syntactic and lexical complexity of listening comprehension subtests in three B2-level examinations: The City Guilds international examination in English, The First Certificate in English, and the General Matura in English. By analysing and interpreting the results obtained from different automated tools, the research aims to determine to what extent the three subtests are comparable. The results of the study suggest the unreliability of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) as a sole mechanism for test comparisons.https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0015context validitylexical complexitylistening comprehension textssyntactic complexity |
| spellingShingle | Ilc Gašper Stopar Andrej Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative Study Romanian Journal of English Studies context validity lexical complexity listening comprehension texts syntactic complexity |
| title | Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative Study |
| title_full | Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative Study |
| title_fullStr | Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative Study |
| title_short | Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of B2 Listening Comprehension Subtests in English: A Comparative Study |
| title_sort | syntactic and lexical complexity of b2 listening comprehension subtests in english a comparative study |
| topic | context validity lexical complexity listening comprehension texts syntactic complexity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0015 |
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