Chapter published in:
Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary SizeI.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead
[Not in series 233] 2021
► pp. 1–6
Chapter 1Introduction
Article outline
- Why test the vocabulary size of native-speakers of English?
- The history of vocabulary size measurement
- How many words does a native-speaker know, how quickly does their vocabulary grow, and what influences this growth?
- What methodological decisions affect these size and rate of growth estimates?
- Increasing vocabulary size
