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THE OXFORD 3000 AND OXFORD 5000 THE MOST IMPORTANT WORDS TO LEARN IN ENGLISHTHE EXPERTS CONSULTED FOR THIS PAPERMARLISE HORSTM arlise Horst is Associate Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on second language vocabulary acquisition. She is the author of Focus on Vocabulary (2019). She has recently completed an ESL coursebook for Maison de l amiti , a community centre in Montreal where she once trained intern teachers and now teaches a class one evening a week. Her career has taken her to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Hong Kong, Canada, and most recently to Tokyo, where she enjoyed teaching a graduate course on second language vocabulary MILTONJ ames Milton is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Swansea University, UK.

0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 Text coverage (%) Number of words c.87% Figure 1. The proportion of words in a text that can be understood with knowledge of increasing numbers of the most frequent words in English (adapted from Milton, 2009, p. 52) Figure 1 shows that the 3,000 most frequent words in English

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