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This week of the course was written by Tita Beaven.

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Table 1: adapted from: Schmitt, N. and Schmitt, D. (2014) ‘A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching’, (adapted from Nation, 2006, p. 64) Language Teaching, vol 47, no. 4, pp. 484–503.

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Figure 1: courtesy © Malachy Ray Rempen 2017 http://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/

Figures 4–7 courtesy © Tita Beaven

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