In:Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size
I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead
[Not in series 233] 2021
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Acknowledgements
Published online: 11 February 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.233.ack
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.233.ack
Norbert Schmitt reviewed the book before publication and had numerous
detailed suggestions for improving it. We are very grateful for his care, attention
and expertise which greatly improved the quality of the book.
Part of Chapter 2 is taken from
Nation, P., & Anthony, L. (2016). Measuring vocabulary size. In E. Hinkel (Ed.),
Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning
(Vol. 3, pp. 355–368). New York, NY: Routledge.
Chapter 3 is largely taken from the
following article: Nation, I. S. P. (1993). Using dictionaries to estimate
vocabulary size: essential, but rarely followed, procedures. Language
Testing, 10(1), 27–40.
Parts of Chapter 4 are taken
directly from Coxhead, A., Nation, P., &
Sim, D. (2015). The vocabulary size of native speakers of English in New
Zealand secondary schools. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies,
50(1), 121–135, and Coxhead, A.,
Nation, P., Woods, L., & Sim, D. (2018). Group vs. individual: How
administration procedure can affect vocabulary test scores. New Zealand
Studies in Applied Linguistics, 24(2), 24–41.
Figure 6.1 comes from Diack, H. (1975b). Test your own
wordpower. St. Albans: Paladin.
Figure 6.2 is from Larson, M. (2019). Estimating the
vocabulary sizes of learners around the world. Presentation at IALLT 2019
(International Association for Language Learning Technology), Eugene, Oregon.
<http://www.vocabularysize.net/iallt2019/iallt.html>.
Figure 7.2 comes from Keuleers, E., Stevens, M., Mandera, P., &
Brysbaert, M. (2015). Word knowledge in the crowd: Measuring vocabulary
size and word prevalence in a massive online experiment. The Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1665–1692.
