The high-frequency vocabulary of English has traditionally been thought to consist of the 2,000 most frequent word families, and low-frequency vocabulary as that beyond the 10,000 frequency level. This paper argues that these boundaries should be reassessed on pedagogic grounds. Based on a number of perspectives (including frequency and acquisition studies, the amount of vocabulary necessary for English usage, the range of graded readers, and dictionary defining vocabulary), we argue that high-frequency English vocabulary should include the most frequent 3,000 word families. We also propose that the low-frequency vocabulary boundary should be lowered to the 9,000 level, on the basis that 8–9,000 word families are sufficient to provide the l...
The purpose of the project is to examine the pupils' vocabulary size. 100 students from an upper sec...
Many researchers have tried to assess the number of words adults know. A general conclusion which em...
This study looks at how much input is needed to gain enough repetition of the 1st 9,000 words of Eng...
The high-frequency vocabulary of English has traditionally been thought to consist of the 2,000 most...
Vocabulary is a fundamental component of language use, and research repeatedly suggests the dominanc...
This paper examines how research on lexical threshold and lexical coverage relates to L2 proficiency...
There is current research consensus that second language (L2) learners are able to adequately compre...
Once seen as a neglected area, second language vocabulary research has come into its own in recent y...
It is widely accepted that high-frequency vocabulary must be taught in ESL/EFL classrooms, and that ...
Collocations, simply defined, are words that have a high frequency of co-occurrence (Biber et al., 1...
This article describes a new free extensive reading resource for learning the mid-frequency words of...
This study aims to gain insights into which collocations to teach at which proficiency levels by ans...
EAP teachers and course designers usually assume that learners have already mastered the most freque...
Knowledge of high-frequency vocabulary is essential to language fluency. However, there is more to k...
Word frequency is the most important variable in research on word processing and memory. Yet, the ma...
The purpose of the project is to examine the pupils' vocabulary size. 100 students from an upper sec...
Many researchers have tried to assess the number of words adults know. A general conclusion which em...
This study looks at how much input is needed to gain enough repetition of the 1st 9,000 words of Eng...
The high-frequency vocabulary of English has traditionally been thought to consist of the 2,000 most...
Vocabulary is a fundamental component of language use, and research repeatedly suggests the dominanc...
This paper examines how research on lexical threshold and lexical coverage relates to L2 proficiency...
There is current research consensus that second language (L2) learners are able to adequately compre...
Once seen as a neglected area, second language vocabulary research has come into its own in recent y...
It is widely accepted that high-frequency vocabulary must be taught in ESL/EFL classrooms, and that ...
Collocations, simply defined, are words that have a high frequency of co-occurrence (Biber et al., 1...
This article describes a new free extensive reading resource for learning the mid-frequency words of...
This study aims to gain insights into which collocations to teach at which proficiency levels by ans...
EAP teachers and course designers usually assume that learners have already mastered the most freque...
Knowledge of high-frequency vocabulary is essential to language fluency. However, there is more to k...
Word frequency is the most important variable in research on word processing and memory. Yet, the ma...
The purpose of the project is to examine the pupils' vocabulary size. 100 students from an upper sec...
Many researchers have tried to assess the number of words adults know. A general conclusion which em...
This study looks at how much input is needed to gain enough repetition of the 1st 9,000 words of Eng...