Extensive reading and viewing as input for academic vocabulary: A large-scale vocabulary profile coverage study of students’ reading and writing across multiple secondary school subjects

• Published in: Lingua Vol. 239; p. 102838
• Main Author: Green, Clarence
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.05.2020; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Academic vocabulary; Biology; Corpus linguistics; English language; Extensive reading; Extensive viewing; Families & family life; Lexical profiling; Literacy; Reading; Science fiction & fantasy; Second language writing; Secondary school students; Secondary schools; Student writing; Sustained silent reading; Television; Vocabulary; Vocabulary; Extensive viewing; Corpus linguistics; Extensive reading; Sustained silent reading; Lexical profiling; Academic vocabulary

•Extensive reading and extensive vocabulary coverage computed over 5 subject areas.•Pedagogies provide excellent coverage for productive vocabulary in English a subject.•Consistently high coverage found for science subjects at secondary school.•Coverage higher for students’ productive use in subject...