In language and second language acquisition research, it is important to have a measure for tracking the proficiency level of participants. Lexical competence is fundamental for communicative purposes in a given language, and vocabulary tests are a reliable measure to assess lexical proficiency. That is why vocabulary tests have a central role in language proficiency assessment. Although many people study Italian as second language (L2), an easy-to-use vocabulary test to measure lexical proficiency is still missing. In this work, we aim to fill this gap by presenting LexITA, which is an objective, reliable, and quick assessment of Italian receptive vocabulary. LextITA was validated on students of Italian L2 and showed to be a valid measure to assess vocabulary knowledge of L2 speakers spanning different levels of proficiency.

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LexITA：一种用于意大利L2接受词汇量的快速可靠的评估工具

在语言和第二语言习得研究中，重要的是要有一种措施来跟踪参与者的熟练程度。词汇能力是给定语言中交流目的的基础，而词汇测试是评估词汇能力的可靠方法。这就是为什么词汇测试在语言能力评估中发挥核心作用的原因。尽管许多人将意大利语作为第二语言（L2）进行学习，但是仍然缺少一种易于使用的词汇测试来衡量词汇水平。在这项工作中，我们旨在通过介绍LexITA来填补这一空白，LexITA是对意大利接受词汇的客观，可靠且快速的评估。LextITA已通过意大利语L2的学生验证，被证明是评估跨不同水平的L2说话者的词汇知识的有效方法。