Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size

by I S P Nation, Averil Coxhead, I.S.P. Nation

Book Overview

Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language. Unfortunately, the measurement of native-speaker vocabulary size has been one of the most methodologically contentious areas of research in applied linguistics, with estimates of adults' vocabulary size ranging from 12,000 words to well over 200,000 words...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027208131
• ISBN13: 9789027208132
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 160 Pages