This part of KAL tests
candidates’ knowledge of different types of meaning; sense relations; word
formation; lexical units; lexicogrammar and register.
Possible testing focus
• types of meaning:
denotation, connotation, figurative, contextual e.g. situational, collocational
• sense relationships:
synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, whole/part, lexical sets, false friends
• word formation:
morphemes, affixation, compounds, types of abbreviations, acronyms, spelling
rules, word families
• lexical units:
collocations, idioms, fixed phrases, formulaic phrases
• lexico-grammatical
features: grammatical function of words and morphemes
• register: domain-specific
vocabulary; degrees of formality in vocabulary and their contexts of occurrence
