Lexical Profile of the Moroccan National High-stakes Baccalaureate Reading Test Materials: A Corpus-based Approach

Lexical profiling studies are concerned with the lexical breadth required to achieve 95% and 98% coverage of various kinds verbal or textual materials (Webb, 2021). While prior research has concentrated on load EFL textbooks (Nguyen, 2020; Sun & Dang, 2020), scarce examined demands local proficiency tests. This study investigated profile Moroccan national reading exams in relation Nation’s (2012) BNC/COCA frequency wordlists. To these objectives, a corpus 10,536 tokens, covering all from 2008 2022, was compiled. Moreover, Vocabulary Size Test (Nation Belgar, 2007) administered 72 baccalaureate students measure their vocabulary size. The findings an examination utilising Antwordprofiler 11 lists revealed that sizes 3,000 word families 4,000 families, including proper nouns, needed 97% rates corpus. Additionally, descriptive statistics showed receptive size respondents (n=72) 2,015 words. These results students’ is insufficient attain coverage. Implications for instruction classrooms discussed.