Lexical Frequency Profiles

Batia Laufer

doi:10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0692

Lexical Frequency Profiles

Batia Laufer

Department of English Language & Literature

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Abstract How do we know that people use rich and sophisticated vocabulary in their writing? Laufer and Nation (1995) proposed that the vocabulary richness of a text could be measured by a quantitative index called the lexical frequency profile (LFP) which uses the proportion of frequent versus nonfrequent vocabulary in the text.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
Editors	C.A. Chapelle
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Print)	9781405198431
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0692
State	Published - 2012

Keywords

esl/efl
research methods in applied linguistics
second language acquisition
corpus
evaluation
vocabulary

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