Vocabulary and the Upper-division Language Curriculum: The Case of Non-native and Heritage Spanish Majors
L2 lexical studies have established that learners need to acquire knowledge of the first 3,000 most frequent words in order to enjoy 95% coverage of the vocabulary used in spontaneous speech (Nation 2006). However, there has been little data available that reveal how many of these most frequent wor...
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2020-11-01
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Series: | L2 Journal |
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Online Access: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69g0f89j |