Applying the famework for second language vocabulary assessment to WordsmithTools

The aim of this paper is providing ESL/EFL teachers and researchers with a thorough description through description of WordSmith Tools (Scott 1997), a technological instrument which provides insight on how words behave in texts. Despite being a legitimate tool for teaching, learning and researcvh, employed in different studies as an assessment tool, we find a lack of description of it on the basis of the relationship between its purpose and design; data which reports relevant information for ESL/EFL teachers and researchers, so that they will be able to consider whether it really fits their pedagogical and/or assessments goals.

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