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Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size
I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead
[Not in series 233] 2021
► pp. 159–160

Subject index

A

  • Accessing 66, 113
  • Acronyms 4, 38, 56, 58, 117, 119
  • Alphabetic principle 81–82
  • AntWordProfiler 101, 121, 123
  • Attrition 2, 61

B

  • Blind guessing107
  • BNC/COCA 2, 28, 38, 40, 46–47, 59–60, 110, 117–118, 121, 128
  • Borrowing77
  • Bound forms 46, 59

C

  • Chains 5, 70, 73, 76, 78
  • Context sentences 36, 123
  • Core idioms121
  • Core meaning 65, 84, 86, 93
  • Coverage 67, 89–90, 127, 152
  • Criteria for making items104
  • Crowd-sourcing59
  • Cultural factors 67, 69–70, 78
  • Cumulative number xiii, 10, 12, 17

D

  • Deciles42
  • Derived forms 3, 12, 20, 24–25, 30, 55–56, 86
  • Distractors 57, 104, 122–123
  • Diversity of experience81

E

  • Economic factors 3, 69–70, 73, 78–79
  • Elaboration 4, 64–65, 67, 72, 88, 93, 98
  • Equivalent forms 57, 121–122
  • Expectancy-value model49
  • Extensive reading 70, 83, 126

F

  • Face validity105
  • False alarms105
  • Family factors 67, 70–71, 78
  • Feedback sheet 96, 135
  • Flemmas 17, 36, 117
  • Four strands 93, 126, 149
  • Free forms 46, 58
  • Funk and Wagnall 29, 139, 146

G

  • Gender 48, 71, 144, 147
  • Genes71
  • Group-administered 48, 50–51, 90
  • Guessing from context 73, 76
  • Guidelines 88, 122–123, 144, 149

H

  • Heap's Law 3, 60
  • Herdan's Law 3, 67–68
  • High-frequency 68–69, 95–96, 126–127, 145
  • Homographs 20, 24–26, 35, 37, 55–56, 106, 119
  • Homonyms 35, 37, 56, 106, 119, 149

I

  • I don't know 41, 104, 111, 148, 151, 153
  • Independent reading83
  • Intensive reading 83–84
  • Interview test 36, 107–108, 110
  • Item format 62, 103–104, 108, 113, 116

K

  • Knowing a word 55, 84, 86–87, 99, 102, 113, 116, 141

L

  • Lag127
  • Learning how to learn88
  • Learning to read 5, 81–83, 129
  • Lemmas 58–60, 144
  • Life experience factors 67, 69–71, 73, 75, 78
  • Living Word Vocabulary 35–38, 105, 119, 145
  • Low socio-economic status 4, 17, 71, 73, 152
  • Low-frequency 68–69, 96, 126, 133

M

  • MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory101
  • Marginal words 117–118
  • Massive Online Multi-player Role Playing Games97
  • Meaning-recall 62, 103–105, 107–109, 113, 117, 122, 129–130
  • Meaning-recognition 38, 66, 104–105, 107–109, 113, 130
  • Mid-frequency 68–69, 83, 96, 125–127
  • Mid-frequency vocabulary 83, 126–127
  • MMORPG 97–98
  • Model of factors 65–66
  • Morphology 99, 152
  • Movies 4, 58, 69, 75, 90, 92, 95–96, 152
  • Multi-player online games95
  • Multimedia 82, 92, 95–96, 98
  • Multiple-choice 30, 36–38, 43, 62, 102–113, 116–117, 121–122, 146, 151
  • Multiword units 31, 53, 62, 118, 120, 125

N

  • Non-defining context 38, 57, 102, 106, 122
  • Noticing 4, 63–65, 67, 72, 96–97
  • Number of tokens 9–18, 101, 115

O

  • Older adults113

P

  • Parallel forms56
  • Parental skills 71, 75
  • Parenting skills73
  • Partial knowledge 76, 99, 103–104, 106–108, 112, 116, 129
  • Pedagogical Seminary 8, 142–146, 148, 150, 152
  • Personal factors 65, 67, 69–71, 73, 75, 78, 125
  • Phonemic awareness 81–82
  • Phonological loop71
  • Picture Vocabulary Size Test 38–40, 43, 88, 101–102, 110, 116, 128
  • Pilot testing 122, 133
  • Polysemes 119–120
  • Polysemy119
  • Pop songs 95–96
  • Portfolio95
  • Prefixes 24–25, 86, 143, 151
  • Prevalence norms 105, 121, 144
  • Principles 19, 78, 85, 88, 93, 97–98, 137
  • Procedures xiii, 19–22, 26, 28–32, 38, 63, 109, 111, 149
  • Proper names 4, 21, 24, 30, 38, 56, 58, 117–119, 142
  • Pseudo-words 33, 59, 102, 105–106, 112–113, 117, 123

Q

  • Quality of encounters75

R

  • Race146
  • Ranking 12, 55
  • Rasch analysis122
  • Rate of growth xiii, 1, 3–4, 129
  • Retrieval 4, 63–65, 67, 72, 85, 88, 93, 98
  • Rich instruction 84, 86
  • Rough rule of thumb 3–4, 29, 33, 37, 43, 48, 52, 63, 65, 84, 91, 130

S

  • Sample length10
  • Sample size 26–28, 121
  • Scales117
  • Shared reading 72, 80, 83, 88, 145, 151
  • Shared-book 80–81, 126
  • Shutterstock38
  • Size of the ball-park 1, 62, 125
  • Specialised vocabulary127
  • Speed reading94
  • Statistical nature of vocabulary 65–69, 78
  • Stems 46, 58, 62, 87, 93, 117
  • Steps xiii, 29–32, 115, 121–123, 143
  • Strategies 48, 97, 107, 111, 126
  • Stratified sampling 26, 32
  • Subsequent homographs 20, 25
  • SUBTLEX58
  • Suffixes 20, 24, 28, 86, 143

T

  • Technical words 47, 58, 120, 125
  • Test-taking effort 48–49, 51, 143
  • Test-taking motivation49
  • Test-taking strategies 48, 107
  • Thirty-million-word gap 73, 146
  • Time-on-task92
  • Toddlers 79, 147–148
  • Tokens 9–18, 40, 67, 101, 115, 125
  • Topic-related vocabulary 81, 93
  • Total vocabulary size xiii, 7–8, 32, 40, 43, 54, 77, 100–101, 110, 121, 125, 128–129
  • Training parents80
  • Trajectory 15, 65, 146
  • Translation 85, 103, 106, 108
  • Transparent compounds 38, 118
  • Tree 126–127
  • Trialling 38, 112
  • Two item multiple-choice109
  • Types xi, xiii, 7–15, 17–18, 23, 25, 32–33, 55, 99–101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 116, 122, 153

U

  • Unit of counting 11–12, 16, 35, 46, 100–101, 117
  • Use of scales117

V

  • Variant forms12
  • Variety of topics 11–12, 96, 98, 101, 115, 127
  • Very young 7, 9, 12, 18, 42–43, 72–73, 79, 88, 100–101, 115–116
  • Vocabulary box 84–86, 88, 144
  • Vocabulary profiling 101, 115
  • Vocabulary Size Test xi, xiv-xv, 27, 38–40, 43, 45, 47, 50, 53, 56–57, 60–61, 66, 68, 88, 90, 96–97, 101–107, 109–113, 115–121, 123, 128–129, 133, 135, 143, 146, 149, 151, 153

W

  • Webster’s dictionary 19–20, 22–24, 137, 139
  • Word consciousness 82, 86–88, 93, 98, 126, 150
  • Word experts 84, 86–88
  • Word family 3–4, 11–12, 20, 23–24, 28–32, 37–38, 46, 57, 59–60, 62, 85–86, 100, 117, 121, 125
  • Word parts 24, 30, 65, 84, 86–87, 93, 99
  • Word type 11, 14, 17
  • Word wall 84, 88
  • Working memory 71, 76, 146
  • Wuggy 106, 147

Y

  • Yes/No 31, 33, 54, 59, 62, 68, 102–103, 105–106, 117, 121–122, 149, 151
Published online: 11 February 2021
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