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vocabulary size: a standalone construct

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vocabularysize1 CONSTRUCTVocabulary sizeNATION · LITERACY EDUCATION

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Literacy education

the number of word families a person knows, used to estimate how much of a text they can understand.

In literacy education, vocabulary size refers to the number of word families a person knows, used to estimate how much of a text they can understand. This meaning comes from Nation (2006) in The Canadian Modern Language Review.[1]

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  1. Nation, I. (2006). How Large a Vocabulary is Needed For Reading and Listening? The Canadian Modern Language Review, 63(1), 59-82. https://doi.org/10.3138/cmlr.63.1.59

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