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Coxhead, Averil; Nation, Paul; Sim, Dalice – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2015
The primary aim of this study was to examine the vocabulary size of native speakers of English in New Zealand secondary schools. Two equivalent forms of the 20,000 version of the vocabulary size test were used in this study. Two hundred and twenty-seven 13-18-year-old native speakers of English at secondary school took an individually administered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English, Vocabulary
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Nation, Paul; Coxhead, Averil – Language Teaching, 2014
The English Language Institute (now the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies) at Victoria University of Wellington has a long history of corpus-based vocabulary research, especially after the arrival of the second director of the institute, H. V. George, and the appointment of Helen Barnard, whom George knew in India. George's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Vocabulary, Receptive Language