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Using dictionaries to estimate vocabulary size: essential, but rarely followed, procedures
Paul Nation
Victoria University of Wellington
This article describes the steps that need to be followed when sampling from a dictionary to make a test of vocabulary size. Because these steps have not been followed, most published estimates of vocabulary size are misleading.
Language Testing, Vol. 10, No. 1,
27-40 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/026553229301000102

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