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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Nguyen, Le Thi Cam; Nation, Paul – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2011
This article describes the development and validation of a Vietnamese bilingual version of the Vocabulary Size Test--a test which measures written receptive vocabulary size. The test can be used to measure the English vocabulary size of Vietnamese learners of English. A learner's total vocabulary size is calculated by multiplying their test result…
Descriptors: Test Results, Vocabulary, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development
Arevart, Supot; Nation, Paul – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1991
The effect of a technique that gets English-as-a-Second-Language learners to tell the same story three times to different listeners with decreasing time for each retelling is examined. The technique allowed learners to perform at a level higher than their normal level of fluency. A transcript of a talk is appended. (Contains 12 references.)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Fluency, Oral Language