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The DV-8k is an 8000-word list based on corpus the highest frequency and dispersion scores from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Its purpose is to be used in a diagnostic test to determine the level of mastery of vocabulary and the level of preparedness for reading a wide range of authentic English texts. Click here to see the DV-8k.About the DV-8k
This diagnostic vocabulary 8000-word list (or DV-8k) is composed of core (1-2000 words) and mid-frequency (2001-8000 words) lists. The core list is based on COCA’s 100-million-word SOAP corpus of scripts from TV dramas because its language will be more informal and deal with more daily life topics; the mid-frequency list is based on COCA’s 400+ million corpus of a balance of genres (news, fiction, spoken and academic). The DV-8k can be understood as an objective ranking representing the likelihood of single-words being encountered in authentic English texts across a wide range of genres. Unlike other word-lists, the DV-8k consists of word-family headwords (lemmas of different primary meanings with the highest frequency and dispersion scores), and a manual elimination process removed the lower frequency lemmas sharing the same primary meaning.Latest News
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Conference talk on the DV-8k
Here are the slides to the MCU conference that introduced the DV-8k. DV-8k wordlist.MCU.2017.03 Abstract This paper has 4 aims: to argue for the need of a ranked wordlist of core[…]
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