About us

Website team:

The core designing and programming of VocbularySize.com was undertaken from July to October 2010 as a group project for SWEN 302 — Agile Methods, a third-year course offered by the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington. The following people were involved in the project:

Name	Details
Cameron Gray	former SWEN 302 student; completed a BSc in computer science in 2011. Cameron remains a contributor to the project and is involved in beta testing and performance monitoring whilst working full time in Malaysia.
Josephine Hall	former SWEN 302 student; completed a BSc in 2010.
Patrick Hindmarsh	former SWEN 302 student; completed a BSc in computer science in 2010. Patrick also provided the initial PHP framework which powers VocabularySize.com, generously hosts the site's repository and issue tracker, and remains a frequent contributor to the project.
Nicholas Lim	former SWEN 302 student; completed a Bachelor of Commerce & Administration and a Bachelor of Science in 2011. He continues an active interest in the project.
Daniel Park	former SWEN 302 student; completed a BSc in 2011.
Felix (Fuci) Shi	former SWEN 302 student; completed a BE in engineering in 2011.
Philip Walkerdine	former SWEN 302 student; completed a BSc in 2010.
Henry Williams	former SWEN 302 student; completed a BSc in electrical engineering in 2011.
Myq Larson	PhD student in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies who started this project as a weekend hobby but quickly realised that he lacked the skills needed to make a truly professional web-based service. After spending several months vicariously learning PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL from the students on the team, he now serves as the primary developer and main point of contact.
Stuart Marshall	SWEN 302 course instructor

Test	Localisation	Name	Details
English Vocabulary Size Test	monolingual	Paul Nation	Vocabulary researcher who created many free vocabulary-focused resources such as the Vocabulary Size Test.
	Chinese (simplified)	Anon	Translated the English Vocabulary Size Test into Chinese (simplified)
	Chinese (traditional)	Joann Chiu	Translated the English Vocabulary Size Test into Chinese (traditional)
	Korean	Teresa Chung	Translated the English Vocabulary Size Test into Korean
	Japanese	Tatsuya Nakata Yosuke Sasao	Translated the English Vocabulary Size Test into Japanese
	Spanish	Betsy Quero	Translated the English Vocabulary Size Test into Spanish
	Vietnamese	Nguyen Thi Cam Le Truong Hong Hue Minh	Translated the English Vocabulary Size Test into Vietnamese
English Word Parts Test	monolingual	Yosuke Sasao	Yosuke Sasao has created a test which measures learners' knowledge of the most common word parts in English at three different levels of knowledge.
Japanese Vocabulary Size Test	monolingual	Tatsuhiko Matsushita	Coming Soon! Tatsuhiko Matsushita's test measures learners' knowledge of the 15,000 most frequent word families in Japanese.
	Chinese (Simplified)
	English

Language	Translator
Chinese (Traditional)	Joann Chiu
Japanese	Tatsuya Nakata Tatsuhiko Matsushita
Russian	Irina Elgort
Spanish	Betsy Quero Erwin La Cruz
Vietnamese	Truong Hong Hue Minh