What does VKS stand for?

Vocabulary Knowledge Scale (Wesche and Paribakht)

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Claim A: The Extent of Hidden Learning An instrument capable of measuring incremental knowledge is Wesche and Paribakht's (1996) vocabulary knowledge scale, or VKS, which asks learners to rate their knowledge of words not in binary terms (I know/I don't know what this word means) but on a five-point scale (ranging from "I don't remember having seen this word before," to "I can use this word in a sentence.

Computing the vocabulary demands of L2 reading

Due to its currency among the measures devised to assess the incremental development of vocabulary learning, Paribakht and Wesche's (1993) Vocabulary Knowledge Scale (VKS) was adopted in the present study.

Vocabulary learning in an automated graded reading program

The test (based on Wesche & Paribakht's Vocabulary Knowledge Scale, 1996) required students to produce a synonym of a target word and if possible, to also incorporate it in a meaningful sentence.

Expanding academic vocabulary with an interactive on-line database