Csaba Zoltán Szabo

Developing COLLAT: Initial validation of a multidimensional collocation awareness assessment using signal detection and Rasch modeling

Research on multiword expressions—including collocations, idioms, and lexical bundles—has advanced substantially; however, most assessments focus on accuracy- and knowledge-oriented measures rather than the awareness processes underlying that knowledge. This article reports the d...

Developing the productive emotion vocabulary test (PEVT) for adult speakers of English as an additional language

Abstract Emotion vocabulary (EV) is integral to language proficiency, yet it is rarely assessed, and existing tools are largely decontextualised and unvalidated for adult users of English as an additional language (Lx). We introduce the Productive Emotion Vocabulary Test (PEVT),...