Subject index

• Accessing 66, 113

• Acronyms 4, 38, 56, 58, 117, 119

• Alphabetic principle 81–82

• AntWordProfiler 101, 121, 123

• Attrition 2, 61

• Blind guessing107

• BNC/COCA 2, 28, 38, 40, 46–47, 59–60, 110, 117–118, 121, 128

• Borrowing77

• Bound forms 46, 59

• Chains 5, 70, 73, 76, 78

• Context sentences 36, 123

• Core idioms121

• Core meaning 65, 84, 86, 93

• Coverage 67, 89–90, 127, 152

• Criteria for making items104

• Crowd-sourcing59

• Cultural factors 67, 69–70, 78

• Cumulative number xiii, 10, 12, 17

• Deciles42

• Derived forms 3, 12, 20, 24–25, 30, 55–56, 86

• Distractors 57, 104, 122–123

• Diversity of experience81

• Economic factors 3, 69–70, 73, 78–79

• Elaboration 4, 64–65, 67, 72, 88, 93, 98

• Equivalent forms 57, 121–122

• Expectancy-value model49

• Extensive reading 70, 83, 126

• Face validity105

• False alarms105

• Family factors 67, 70–71, 78

• Feedback sheet 96, 135

• Flemmas 17, 36, 117

• Four strands 93, 126, 149

• Free forms 46, 58

• Funk and Wagnall 29, 139, 146

• Gender 48, 71, 144, 147

• Genes71

• Group-administered 48, 50–51, 90

• Guessing from context 73, 76

• Guidelines 88, 122–123, 144, 149

• Heap's Law 3, 60

• Herdan's Law 3, 67–68

• High-frequency 68–69, 95–96, 126–127, 145

• Homographs 20, 24–26, 35, 37, 55–56, 106, 119

• Homonyms 35, 37, 56, 106, 119, 149

• I don't know 41, 104, 111, 148, 151, 153

• Independent reading83

• Intensive reading 83–84

• Interview test 36, 107–108, 110

• Item format 62, 103–104, 108, 113, 116

• Knowing a word 55, 84, 86–87, 99, 102, 113, 116, 141

• Lag127

• Learning how to learn88

• Learning to read 5, 81–83, 129

• Lemmas 58–60, 144

• Life experience factors 67, 69–71, 73, 75, 78

• Living Word Vocabulary 35–38, 105, 119, 145

• Low socio-economic status 4, 17, 71, 73, 152

• Low-frequency 68–69, 96, 126, 133

• MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory101

• Marginal words 117–118

• Massive Online Multi-player Role Playing Games97

• Meaning-recall 62, 103–105, 107–109, 113, 117, 122, 129–130

• Meaning-recognition 38, 66, 104–105, 107–109, 113, 130

• Mid-frequency 68–69, 83, 96, 125–127

• Mid-frequency vocabulary 83, 126–127

• MMORPG 97–98

• Model of factors 65–66

• Morphology 99, 152

• Movies 4, 58, 69, 75, 90, 92, 95–96, 152

• Multi-player online games95

• Multimedia 82, 92, 95–96, 98

• Multiple-choice 30, 36–38, 43, 62, 102–113, 116–117, 121–122, 146, 151

• Multiword units 31, 53, 62, 118, 120, 125

• Non-defining context 38, 57, 102, 106, 122

• Noticing 4, 63–65, 67, 72, 96–97

• Number of tokens 9–18, 101, 115

• Older adults113

• Parallel forms56

• Parental skills 71, 75

• Parenting skills73

• Partial knowledge 76, 99, 103–104, 106–108, 112, 116, 129

• Pedagogical Seminary 8, 142–146, 148, 150, 152

• Personal factors 65, 67, 69–71, 73, 75, 78, 125

• Phonemic awareness 81–82

• Phonological loop71

• Picture Vocabulary Size Test 38–40, 43, 88, 101–102, 110, 116, 128

• Pilot testing 122, 133

• Polysemes 119–120

• Polysemy119

• Pop songs 95–96

• Portfolio95

• Prefixes 24–25, 86, 143, 151

• Prevalence norms 105, 121, 144

• Principles 19, 78, 85, 88, 93, 97–98, 137

• Procedures xiii, 19–22, 26, 28–32, 38, 63, 109, 111, 149

• Proper names 4, 21, 24, 30, 38, 56, 58, 117–119, 142

• Pseudo-words 33, 59, 102, 105–106, 112–113, 117, 123

• Quality of encounters75

• Race146

• Ranking 12, 55

• Rasch analysis122

• Rate of growth xiii, 1, 3–4, 129

• Retrieval 4, 63–65, 67, 72, 85, 88, 93, 98

• Rich instruction 84, 86

• Rough rule of thumb 3–4, 29, 33, 37, 43, 48, 52, 63, 65, 84, 91, 130

• Sample length10

• Sample size 26–28, 121

• Scales117

• Shared reading 72, 80, 83, 88, 145, 151

• Shared-book 80–81, 126

• Shutterstock38

• Size of the ball-park 1, 62, 125

• Specialised vocabulary127

• Speed reading94

• Statistical nature of vocabulary 65–69, 78

• Stems 46, 58, 62, 87, 93, 117

• Steps xiii, 29–32, 115, 121–123, 143

• Strategies 48, 97, 107, 111, 126

• Stratified sampling 26, 32

• Subsequent homographs 20, 25

• SUBTLEX58

• Suffixes 20, 24, 28, 86, 143

• Technical words 47, 58, 120, 125

• Test-taking effort 48–49, 51, 143

• Test-taking motivation49

• Test-taking strategies 48, 107

• Thirty-million-word gap 73, 146

• Time-on-task92

• Toddlers 79, 147–148

• Tokens 9–18, 40, 67, 101, 115, 125

• Topic-related vocabulary 81, 93

• Total vocabulary size xiii, 7–8, 32, 40, 43, 54, 77, 100–101, 110, 121, 125, 128–129

• Training parents80

• Trajectory 15, 65, 146

• Translation 85, 103, 106, 108

• Transparent compounds 38, 118

• Tree 126–127

• Trialling 38, 112

• Two item multiple-choice109

• Types xi, xiii, 7–15, 17–18, 23, 25, 32–33, 55, 99–101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 116, 122, 153

• Unit of counting 11–12, 16, 35, 46, 100–101, 117

• Use of scales117

• Variant forms12

• Variety of topics 11–12, 96, 98, 101, 115, 127

• Very young 7, 9, 12, 18, 42–43, 72–73, 79, 88, 100–101, 115–116

• Vocabulary box 84–86, 88, 144

• Vocabulary profiling 101, 115

• Vocabulary Size Test xi, xiv-xv, 27, 38–40, 43, 45, 47, 50, 53, 56–57, 60–61, 66, 68, 88, 90, 96–97, 101–107, 109–113, 115–121, 123, 128–129, 133, 135, 143, 146, 149, 151, 153

• Webster’s dictionary 19–20, 22–24, 137, 139

• Word consciousness 82, 86–88, 93, 98, 126, 150

• Word experts 84, 86–88

• Word family 3–4, 11–12, 20, 23–24, 28–32, 37–38, 46, 57, 59–60, 62, 85–86, 100, 117, 121, 125

• Word parts 24, 30, 65, 84, 86–87, 93, 99

• Word type 11, 14, 17

• Word wall 84, 88

• Working memory 71, 76, 146

• Wuggy 106, 147

• Yes/No 31, 33, 54, 59, 62, 68, 102–103, 105–106, 117, 121–122, 149, 151