Lexical Coverage in L1 and L2 Listening Comprehension: The Same or Different from Reading Comprehension?

By Hilde van Zeeland, N. Schmitt. 2013

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Extensive viewing of captioned and subtitled TV series: a study of L2 vocabulary learning by adolescents (2019, background): “Research has shown that learners need to know around 3000 word families to understand oral discourse (e.g. van Zeeland and Schmitt 2013) and between 8000 and 9000 to understand written discourse (e.g. Nation 2006).”
How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007) (2015, methodology): “Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007) Norbert Schmitt University of Nottingham norbert.Schmitt@nottingham.ac.uk Tom Cobb University of Quebec at Montreal cobb.tom@uqam.ca Marlise Horst Concordia University marlise@education.concordia.ca Diane Schmitt Nottingham…”
Explaining listening comprehension among L2 learners of English: the contribution of general language proficiency, vocabulary knowledge and metacognitive awareness (2017, background): “…& Cheng, 2015; Milton et al., 2010; Staehr, 2009), many participants may have been on the cusp of understanding the listening component of the CET4, as knowledge of 2000-3000 word families is required as a minimum for listening comprehension at a 95% coverage figure (van Zeeland & Schmitt, 2013).”
A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching1 (2012, background): “The most frequent 2,000 word families form the traditional cut-off point for high frequency vocabulary, a tradition widely cited in teacher guidebooks and research publications (e.g. Nation 1990, 2001a; Read 2000; Schmitt 2000; Thornbury 2002).”
Using Listener Judgments to Investigate Linguistic Influences on L2 Comprehensibility and Accentedness: A Validation and Generalization Study (2015, result): “For instance, previous research has shown that L2 learners may need to increase their vocabulary size beyond the first 2,000 word families to be able to understand everyday spoken discourse (e.g. Van Zeeland and Schmitt 2013) and other speech genres (e.g. Webb and Rodgers 2009).”
The creation and validation of a listening vocabulary levels test (2015, background): “…has stated that knowledge of the first five BNC/COCA 1000-word bands provides 98% of coverage of talk-back, interviews, and conversations (I.S.P. Nation, personal communication, August 2014), a figure that generally results in adequate comprehension of aural texts (van Zeeland & Schmitt, 2012).”