JACET8000のテキストカバー率語彙表と英文テキストによる検証*

Abstract

After gathering its own English texts,then comparing them with the British National Corpus,the JACET Committee for Revising Basic Words compiled a list of the 8000 most frequent and important English words.The list is available in a handbook The JACET 8000 Basic Words.In this article,the author,a member of this committee,examines to what extent words in this list correspond to those in four well-known academic word lists,and then tests how well these 8000 words actually cover the vocabulary in seven types of randomly chosen English texts.