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‘The wisdom of crowds’: When teacher judgments outperform word-frequency as a predictor of students’ vocabulary knowledge

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Language Teaching Research

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Abstract

Language Teaching Research, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 2085-2109, May 2026.
This study investigated the effectiveness of word-frequency and teacher judgments in determining students’ vocabulary knowledge and compared the predictive powers of both approaches when estimating vocabulary knowledge. Twenty-nine second language (L2) ...