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Gloriana Mora, Audry Portilla, Katherine Prado, Samantha Sánchez, and Roger Zamora

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Learning Vocabulary in Another Language

Gloriana Mora, Audry Portilla, Katherine Prado, Samantha Sánchez, and Roger Zamora.

HOW MANY WORDS ARE THERE IN THE LANGUAGE?

Types

Tokens

A word that appears more than once in a text or discussion is counted only one time.

Words that are repeated along a text or discussion but are counted each time they appear.

Lemas

Word Families

A head word and its inflected and reduced forms (being the same part of speech) belong to the same lema and count as a unit..

A headword, its inflected forms, and derived forms belong to the same word family and count as a unit.

How many words do native speakers know?

Educated native speakers of English know around 20,000 word families. They add on average1,000 word families a year to their vocabulary

HOW MUCH VOCABULARY DO YOU NEED TO USE ANOTHER LANGUAGE?

High-frequency words

Academic words

Academic Word List: contains 570 headwords. Important for anyone using English for academic purposes.

Function words and content words. Around 2,000 word families. Any time spend studying them is worth it.

Low-frequency words

Technical words

5% of the words in an academic text. They are the words that are not high-frequency, academic and technical words.

They cover about 5% of the running words in a text. They differ from subject area to subject area.

  1. Some are of moderate frequency.
  2. Some are proper names.
  3. ‘One person’s technical vocabulary is another person’s lowfrequency word.’
  4. Some words that are rarely use by anyone,
  5. Learners should practice the use of vocabulary while they learn new words.

Specialized words, Academic vocabulary, Sub-technical vocabulary (formal vocabulary)

They allow writers to refer to others’ work...: and they allow writers to work with data in academic ways

Testing vocabulary knowledge

High-frequency words must be well known. There is The Vocabulary Levels Test which purpose is to find out whether learners need to be working on high-frequency or low-frequency words, and roughly how much work needs to be done on these words.

Nation, I. S. P. (2001). Learning Vocabulary in Another Language. Cambridge University Press.