Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size.

Intro -- Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Why test the vocabulary size of native-speakers of English? -- The history of vocabulary size measurement -- How many words does a native-speaker know, how quickly does their vocabulary grow, and what influences this growth? -- What methodological decisions affect these size and rate of growth estimates? -- Increasing vocabulary size -- Chapter 2. The productive vocabulary sizes of young native-speakers of English -- Measuring total vocabulary size -- Measuring productive vocabulary size -- The productive total vocabulary size of young children -- Can spoken output be used to measure vocabulary knowledge? -- Is the cumulative number of types a good way to measure vocabulary growth? -- Is it possible to do data-gathering of a child's output at various intervals to show vocabulary growth? -- Critiques of particular studies -- Hart and Risley -- Huttenlocher, Haight, Bryk, Seltzer, and Lyons -- Rowe, Raudenbush and Goldin-Meadow -- Hoff -- Chapter 3. Dictionary-based studies of vocabulary size -- Thorndike's review (1924) -- Later reviews (1930s to 1960s) -- Procedures for drawing a representative sample from a dictionary -- Examples of the effects of not applying the steps -- An example of applying the steps -- Chapter 4. The receptive vocabulary sizes of young native-speakers of English -- Edward Thorndike -- Biemiller (2005) and Biemiller and Slonim's (2001) studies -- The picture vocabulary size test -- Making the test -- Informal observations of learners sitting the test -- The "I don't know" option -- Some data from using the tests -- Chapter 5. The vocabulary sizes of native-speakers of English in secondary school -- The vocabulary size test -- The BNC/COCA lists.

Using the vocabulary size test in New Zealand secondary schools -- The role of test-taking effort -- Chapter 6. Frequency-list based studies of adult native-speakers' vocabulary size -- Test your own wordpower -- Using several forms of the same test -- A massive online measure of English vocabulary knowledge -- Data gathered from online versions of the Vocabulary Size Test -- Some speculations -- Chapter 7. Factors affecting native-speaker vocabulary size and growth -- The conditions affecting vocabulary learning -- A model of factors affecting vocabulary size and growth -- Age and the statistical nature of vocabulary -- Age -- The statistical nature of vocabulary -- Factors affecting variation between individuals in their rate of vocabulary growth -- Social and personal factors -- Life experience factors -- Opportunities for input and use -- Some well-researched causal chains -- The 30-million-word gap -- The role of education -- Parental skills and habits -- Guessing the meanings of words from context -- The effect of learning additional languages -- An overview of factors affecting vocabulary size and growth -- Chapter 8. Supporting native-speaker vocabulary growth -- Toddlers and pre-school -- Parent training in interacting with children -- Experiencing and talking about the world -- Doing lots of different things -- Getting ready for learning to read -- Primary school -- Vocabulary learning through oral interaction -- Vocabulary learning through reading -- The deliberate teaching and learning of vocabulary -- Word consciousness -- Learning how to learn words -- Guidelines for teachers for supporting primary school children's vocabulary growth -- Secondary school -- Using the Vocabulary Size Test -- The vocabulary sizes of native-speakers in New Zealand secondary schools.

Suggestions for improving vocabulary learning through quantity of reading and writing -- Suggestions for giving attention to vocabulary -- How can reading be encouraged and monitored in class? -- How can writing be encouraged and monitored in class? -- Suggestions for learning through multimedia resources -- Supporting vocabulary growth in adults -- Chapter 9. Measures and item types used to estimate native-speaker vocabulary size -- Using spoken output to measure vocabulary size and growth -- Single person output studies -- Studies using small amounts of output -- Measuring receptive vocabulary size -- What do scores on different vocabulary test item formats mean? -- Issues with multiple-choice measures -- Issues with Yes/No measures -- Issues with meaning-recall (interview) measures -- What kind of knowledge should a test of vocabulary size measure? -- Young children -- Primary school children -- Secondary school children -- Adults -- Chapter 10. Creating a vocabulary size test -- The steps involved in measuring vocabulary size -- Deciding who will be tested and why -- Deciding what will be measured -- Deciding how to measure whether a word is known -- Estimating vocabulary size from the test results -- Chapter 11. Needed research and some final thoughts -- Vocabulary growth -- The vocabulary gap -- 1. Developing research tools -- 2. Improving the methodology of vocabulary size research -- 3. Answering research questions on native-speaker vocabulary size and growth -- 4. Using the data from vocabulary size tests -- The future of vocabulary size testing -- Appendix 1. Instructions for individual test administration for research assistants (Coxhead, Nation, Woods, &amp -- Sim, 2018): Instructions for individual test administration for research assistants (Coxhead, Nation, Woods, &amp -- Sim, 2018).

Appendix 2. Vocabulary size test feedback sheet for scores over 10,000 words (Coxhead, Nation, Woods, &amp -- Sim, 2018) -- Appendix 3. The vocabularies of school pupils by E. L. Thorndike -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.

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