Oxford 3000

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Under Oxford 3000 , the 3,000 most common words are English language understood particularly for learning as a foreign language are important.

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These vocabulary are considered the minimum for an acceptable reading comprehension and therefore form an essential threshold for communication in English as a foreign language. It represents the expanded basic vocabulary with which over 85% of the words used can be covered.

The list was compiled using statistical methods , with the underlying text consisting of multiple sources and spoken and written English of two billion words. Then the list of experts and language teachers was expanded to include important words. However, it was not taken into account that a word can have several meanings and can also be used in phrases that are meaningless. Currently (2015) the official list contains approx. 3300 words.

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In the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR / GERS) as well as for language certificates such as the Cambridge English Language Assessment , the IELTS , the TOEFL or the GMAT , vocabulary lists created in this way form an essential basis for the classification in addition to mastering the grammar. The vocabulary of GERS level A1 is around 500 words, in A2 around 1,100 words, in B1 and B2 around 1,800 or 2,600 words, and in C1 and C2 around 3,500 or 5,000 words.

The vocabulary that the common textbooks of the two major German publishing houses Cornelsen and Klett present in English at the end of the 10th grade (in Austria: 6th grade high school) is based on lists created in this way and amounts to between 3500 (Klett) and 5000 (Cornelsen) words, of which good students usually only use 2000 to 3000 words for text production.

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  1. ^ Description in Oxford University Press
  2. ↑ Batia Laufer, Reading in a foreign language: how does L2 lexical knowledge interact with the reader's general academic ability? Journal of Research in Reading 15, Wiley Verlag, 1992, p95-103 PDF
  3. ^ Unlock the Oxford 3000 Oxford University Press.
  4. ↑ http://www.steinke-institut.de/europaeischer_referenzrahmen.htm