... words that occur in a typical English text. Work by Laufer (1989, 1992) with ESL readers has suggested that knowledge of these 3000 items represents a threshold figure for reading comprehension. In other words, without knowledge of this core vocabulary, reading a normal unsimplified English text is a laborious and painstaking exercise since the learner does not know enough words in ... self-report schemes entail, they have served the purposes of this research well. We succeeded in assessing vocabulary knowledge gains in a way that largely maintained the integrity of the comprehension-foc...

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