Resumen de Applying the famework for second language vocabulary assessment to Wordsmith Tools

Soraya Moreno Espinosa, Almudena Fernández Fontecha , María del Pilar Agustín Llach

• español

  Nuestro objetivo es proporcionar tanto al profesorado de inglés como lengua extranjera como a los investigadores, una exhaustiva descripción de WordSmith Tools (SCOTT 1997), un instrumento tecnológico que proporciona una nueva visión del comportamiento de las palabras en el texto, con el fin de que puedan considerar si dicha herramienta encaja dentro de sus objetivos tanto pedagógicos como de evaluación

• English

  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.