A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching

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...

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Main Authors: Schmitt, Norbert, Schmitt, Diane
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32297/