List of figures
Figure 1.
Murray’s vision of the English vocabulary (from Murray 1888, xvii).
Figure 2.
The size of the DV lists in the earliest and the latest editions published in 1987–2015.
Figure 3.
Hierarchical cluster analysis: Visualization of similarity of DV lists.
Figure 4.
Comprehension scores by dictionary.
Figure 5.
Correlation between comprehension score and receptive vocabulary load (RVL).
Figure 6.
Comprehension of invented definitions.
Figure 7.
Correlation between comprehension score and the percentage of high-frequency and wide-range words in definitions.
Figure 8.
Correlation between comprehension score and the percentage of synonym definitions.
Figure 9.
Correlation between comprehension score and average definition length.
Figure 10.
Students’ perception of definition helpfulness.