Frecuencia léxica y secuenciación del vocabulario en lecturas graduadas del español
Lexical frequency and vocabulary sequencing in Spanish graded readers

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the distribution of words and collocations in a corpus of Spanish graded readers across different levels of proficiency. The main aim is to verify whether there is any relation between lexical frequency as registered in a general corpus of Spanish and the distribution of vocabulary items (single words and collocations) in texts of different levels, such that there is an increase of infrequent items as the proficiency level rises. Such a relation cannot be taken for granted in the case of Spanish graded readers, since a review of the literature suggests that factors other than vocabulary selection (namely, grammatical features) have been given priority in creating texts for a given proficiency level.

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