Can you suggest any vocabulary size assessment tools to guide designing speaking tasks?

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Meral Unver

Pearson's Teacher Toolkit might be useful to sort the vocabulary and determine the level / difficulty of the vocabulary items you will use in designing the tasks.

In our institution, we use it to determine the vocabulary items for the placement and proficiency tests.

Here is the link:

https://www.english.com/gse/teacher-toolkit

Good luck

Hale Kizilcik

Thank you.

Radhika Radhakrishnan

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