Page 28 - Vocabulary Creatively
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1) Select the words to be tested
2) Prepare a sentence context
3) Choose distracters and
4) Write instruction
Advantages of multiple choice paraphrase
1) Context preparation is rather easy
2) Scoring is easy and consistent
3) It is a sensitive measure of achievement
Limitation of multiple-choice paraphrase
1) It is a sensitive measure of achievement
2) It is easy for students to cheat
d. Simple completion (words)
Word-formation items require students to fill in
missing parts of word that appear in sentences. These
missing parts are usually prefixes and
suffixes-for example, the un- in untie or the —full in
thankful. A related task is to use words like the following
in a sentence and have students supply missing syllable
of any kind, such as the rel- in relative or the - ate in
deliberate. The step in preparing a simple-completion
vocabulary test are similar to those followed in the two
previous sections, but with one difference:
Now no distracters are needed. Here are the step:
