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In the light of the initiation of EFL teaching in Algerian primary schools starting from the academic year 2022 – 2023, the present paper investigates the vocabulary size of the textbook of English designed for primary-school learners: My Book of English. Our study explores the frequency and range of lexical input included in the textbook by comparison with Nations’ word list BNC/COCA2000 (British National Corpus/ Corpus of Contemporary American English 2000). The results indicate that many of the headwords included in the coursebook are part of the BNC/COCA2000 word list, but with less recycling; a number of words are also considered low-frequent vocabulary and thus unnecessary for beginners. Another finding is that some useful words for beginners are not included in the textbook. The study concludes by suggesting a number of vocabulary selection criteria for textbook authors so as to make the lexical items more useful for primary-school learners in the future editions of the textbook.
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