We established three main aims during the year: to create a “gold standard” set of testing items, to develop a mock-up application for testing purposes, and to carry out a pilot investigation involving the gold standard items and the mock-up application. The gold standard items focused on creating a large number of multiple choice cloze vocabulary test items based on the General Service List and the Academic Word List. 5,000 items were generated automatically and then evaluated and corrected by experienced language teachers. In the end 2,786 items were retained in the gold standard set. Concurrently, an on-line vocabulary training and testing application was developed. Learners can choose a specific GSL or AWL sublist to focus on and receive practice items or take a short test occasionally to evaluate their knowledge of a specific sublist. Finally, a pilot experiment was carried out with 12 student participants. Over a two-week period, the participants were free to use the vocabulary application at their own pace, but with a target to study vocabulary a total of about 6 hours, spread out evenly across the time. Pre- and post-test results showed a significant gain in vocabulary knowledge over the two-week period.