Language Frequency Profiling of Written Texts by Students of German as a Foreign Language

The present work contributes to the ongoing discussion of the factors involved in perfecting foreign language learning through a close examination of vocabulary use. Motivated by Laufer’s (1991) argument that the use of less frequent vocabulary items is a sign that a language learner is approximatin...

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Main Author: Pokorny, Bjanka
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4680