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This study addresses the lack of clarity regarding the receptive and productive vocabulary sizes, levels, and profiles of first-year Korean EFL university students in the Korean English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Conducted over five years, the four-stage study first measured the receptive vocabulary sizes of 963 first-year students using the Nation & Beglar (2007) online Vocabulary Size Test. In the second stage, a subset of 126 students were assessed for controlled productive vocabulary using the Laufer & Nation (1999) Productive Vocabulary Levels Test. The third and fourth stages analyzed learners’ free productive vocabulary through a corpora analysis of 492 written essays and 492 spoken monologues by applying the Laufer & Nation (1995) Lexical Frequency Profile and the Moving-Average Type-Token Ratio (Covington & McFall, 2010). Adopting a cross-sectional quantitative design, the median receptive vocabulary size of 7,900 word families. Controlled productive vocabulary, however, was largely limited to the 2,000-word families level. Analyses of free productive vocabulary further revealed a strong reliance on the 1,000-word families level across both written and spoken corpora. These findings highlight a substantial gap between receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge and suggest the need for targeted pedagogical interventions.

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Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Literature Review
Ⅲ. Research Method
A. Participants
B. Instruments
C. Procedure
Ⅳ. Results
Ⅴ. Discussion
Ⅵ. Conclusions and Implications
References
Abstract

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저자

• Sally Arkley [ Graduate Student, Chonnam National University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820