@article{article_332875, title={Do You Need to Read 8,000,000 Words to Acquire 2,000 Word Families in English?: A Comment on Hill and Laufer (2003)}, journal={Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching}, volume={2}, pages={130–132}, year={2017}, url={https://izlik.org/JA42TG23YL}, author={Mcquillan, Jeff}, keywords={Vocabulary,Reading,Acquisition,Research Design}, abstract={<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;"> <span style="font-family:’Times New Roman’;">This brief research note comments on
estimates made by Hill and Laufer (2003), and repeated by other researchers, regarding
the total number of words one needs to read to acquire 2,000 word families in
English. Hill and Laufer failed to distinguish between unknown word samples and
unknown word populations in incidental vocabulary research designs, leading to
an erroneous estimate. </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={3}