Hyojin Jeon (Seoul National University)
1. Introduction
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2. Background
2.1. L2 learners and the Significance of Verb-particle Collocations
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2.2. Considerations for Test Development
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3. Method
3.1. Participants
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3.2. Instruments
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Table 1. The Breakdown of Each Section in the VPC test
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3.3. Procedures
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4. Results
4.1. Descriptive Statistics
Table 2. Descriptive Statistics for the Scores from the VPC test and TOEFL (convt)
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4.2. Reliability
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Table 3. Pearson Product-moment Correlations for the VPC test and TOEFL(convt)
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Figure 1. Scatter Plot of the VPC Test and TOFEL Scores
4.3. VPC Analyses
Table 4. VPCs Appeared in Test-takers’ Essays for Section C
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Table 5. The List of Most Frequently-used VPCs belonging to Types 1 and 4
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Figure 2. Averaged VPC frequencies for each essay score level
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5. Discussion
5.1. Relationships among the Subtests, Total Test, and an Overall Proficiency Measure
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5.2. VPC frequency and patterns in the essay test
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6. Conclusion
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References
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Received on 14 July, 2011
Revised version received on 31 August, 2011 Accepted on 31 August, 2011
