Jeff McQuillan’s discussion on Time, texts, and teaching in vocabulary acquisition: A rebuttal to Cobb (2016)

I provided data (McQuillan, 2016) to show that there is an adequate amount of reading material that can be read at or above 98% vocabulary coverage to provide sufficient input to acquire most of the word families from the 2,000to the 9,000-word-family levels. Cobb does not dispute these findings, nor present any evidence to counter them. On the substantive issues addressed in my paper, then, we are apparently in agreement.