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Research Investigating Lexical Coverage and Lexical Profiling: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What Needs to Be Examined

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Webb, Stuart – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021

Studies of lexical coverage are valuable because they reveal the importance of vocabulary knowledge to comprehension. Lexical profiling research is also extremely useful because it indicates the vocabulary knowledge necessary to understand different text types such as novels, newspapers, academic lectures, television programs, and movies.…

Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development