Threshold
Laufer suggest that 3.000 word families or 5.000 lexical items are the threshold (Laufer 1997). Coady & Nation (1998) suggest 98% of lexical coverage and 5000 word families or 8000 items for a pleasurable reading (Coady & Huckin 1997, p. 233). After this threshold, the learner leave the beginner paradox, and enter a virtuous circle (Coady & Huckin 1997, p. 233). Then, extensive reading become more efficient.
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Famous quotes containing the word threshold:
“We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.”
—J.A. (José Antonio)
“Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world’s activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)
“On the threshold of old age.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)