It is said that most adult second language learners will be lucky to
It is said that most adult second language learners will be lucky to
acquire 5000 words even after several years of study .In comparison a
native speaker can usually have 20000 word.
This relaticely slow progress has less to do with aptitude than with
exposure.It has been calculated a classroom learner would need 18
years of classroom exposure to supply the same amount of vocabulary
input that occurs in just one year of natural settings.
How many words does a learner need to know?One figure that is ofren
quoted is 2000.This is around the number of word that most native
speakers use in their daily conversation.It is also the size og the
defining vocabulary used in dictionaries for language learners.
In fact,the most frequent 100words in English make up 50 percent of
most texts.These include grammar or function words such as "has",but
not content words like "answer"