How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007)

There is current research consensus that second language (L2) learners are able to adequately comprehend general English written texts if they know 98% of the words that occur in the materials. This important finding prompts an important question: How much English vocabulary do English as a second l...

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Main Authors: Schmitt, Norbert, Cobb, Tom, Horst, Marlise, Schmitt, Diane
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32292/