School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Vocabulary Resources

The resources on this page were developed by Paul Nation.

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The Vocabulary Resource Booklet contains word lists, vocabulary tests (monolingual and bilingual), and survival vocabulary in a variety of languages.

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Vocabulary Resource Booklet 1,215 KB ZIP

Vocabulary Size Test

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PDF icon. Vocabulary Size Test (monolingual version) 403 KB PDF
PDF icon. Vocabulary Size Test (bilingual Korean version) 591 KB PDF
PDF icon. Vocabulary Size Test (bilingual Mandarin version) 541 KB PDF
PDF icon. Vocabulary Size Test (bilingual Vietnamese version) 636 KB PDF

Fluency and Learning - Role of Fluency Activities paper

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Fluency and Learning 7 KB TXT

A Speed reading course at the 1000 word level

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PDF icon. Speed Reading Course 445 KB PDF