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How Much Vocab? paper link

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montmorency
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03 October 2012 at 7:44pm | IP Logged 
A link to this paper has been posted in the past, but that link now seems to be broken. The following one is currently working:

VOCABULARY SIZE, TEXT COVERAGE AND WORD LISTS

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VOCABULARY SIZE, TEXT COVERAGE AND WORD LISTS

Paul Nation and Robert Waring

How much vocabulary does a second language learner need?



(The link to the main menu of papers unfortunately doesn't work, but there are plain text references to other papers).


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03 October 2012 at 7:54pm | IP Logged 
Some links on here (Rob Waring's website) may be of interest:

Second Language Vocabulary


Looks like it hasn't been updated for a couple of years, but the links I tried worked. Slant is on EFL/ESL, but probably may be more generally applicable.
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03 October 2012 at 8:00pm | IP Logged 
Is the author of This site a member of HTLAL, I wonder? :)


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03 October 2012 at 9:50pm | IP Logged 
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Is the author of This site a member of HTLAL, I wonder? :)


Yes, he is ;)

Sorry, I know I don't post here much, though I've been a member for years now, I need to do it more frequently. I just saw some traffic coming in from this link in my logs and got curious.


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