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Vocabulary size research at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2014

Paul Nation  and
Averil Coxhead
Paul Nation
Affiliation:
LALS, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandPaul.Nation@vuw.ac.nz
Averil Coxhead
Affiliation:
LALS, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandAveril.Coxhead@vuw.ac.nz
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The English Language Institute (now the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies) at Victoria University of Wellington has a long history of corpus-based vocabulary research, especially after the arrival of the second director of the institute, H. V. George, and the appointment of Helen Barnard, whom George knew in India. George's successor, Graeme Kennedy, also saw corpus linguistics as a very fruitful and important area of applied language research.

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Research in Progress
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Language Teaching , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 2014 , pp. 398 - 403
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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