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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“I had a good talk with Alcott this afternoon. He is certainly the youngest man of his age we have seen,—just on the threshold of life. When I looked at his gray hairs, his conversation sounded pathetic; but I looked again, and they reminded me of the gray dawn.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“On the threshold of old age.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“The free man is a warrior.—How is freedom measured among individuals, among peoples? According to the resistance that must be overcome, according to the trouble it takes to stay on top. The highest type of free man must be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps away from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)