Friday 22 October 2010

How good is your vocabulary?

It has been suggested that to have a fairly complete understanding of a text that you should know approximately 95% of the words in front of you. With this knowledge, you can probably work out the meanings of unknown words from context. This means knowing 19 out of every 20 words in front of you. Try it out with a few pages of academic text, and see how close you are to the magic 95% figure and how much further you need to go.

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