Work by Laufer (1989, 1992) with ESL readers has suggested that knowledge of these 3000 items represents a threshold figure for reading comprehension. ... It follows that the best way of bringing beginning learners to the point where they can actually do significant amounts of comprehension-focused reading (and infer meanings of new words along the way) may be to ensure that they achieve mastery of the 3000-word high-frequency core of the language. ... They contrasted proficiency increases in two groups of learners, one group who completed a reading skills workbook and another group who used c...

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