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Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary SizeI.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead
[Not in series 233] 2021
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I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead
[Not in series 233] 2021
► pp. vii–vii
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
XIII
Chapter 1.Introduction
1
Chapter 2.The productive vocabulary sizes of young native-speakers of English
7
Chapter 3.Dictionary-based studies of vocabulary size
19
Chapter 4.The receptive vocabulary sizes of young native-speakers of English
35
Chapter 5.The vocabulary sizes of native-speakers of English in secondary
school
45
Chapter 6.Frequency-list based studies of adult native-speakers’ vocabulary
size
53
Chapter 7.Factors affecting native-speaker vocabulary size and growth
63
Chapter 8.Supporting native-speaker vocabulary growth
79
Chapter 9.Measures and item types used to estimate native-speaker vocabulary
size
99
Chapter 10.Creating a vocabulary size test
115
Chapter 11.Needed research and some final thoughts
125
Appendix 1.Instructions for individual test administration
133
Appendix 2.Vocabulary Size Test feedback sheet
135
Appendix 3.The vocabularies of school pupils (Thorndike, 1924)
137
References
143
Author index
155
Subject index
159
