Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and TestingWord lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on vocabulary load, and vocabulary test development. This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe the factors they need to consider when they create frequency-based word lists. These include the purpose for which the word list is to be used, the design of the corpus from which the list will be made, the unit of counting, and what should and should not be counted as words. The book draws on research to show the current state of knowledge of these factors and provides very practical guidelines for making word lists for language teaching and testing. The writer is well known for his work in the teaching and learning of vocabulary and in the creation of word lists and vocabulary size tests based on word lists. |
Contents
Section II Deciding what to count as words | 15 |
Section III Choosing and preparing the corpus | 93 |
Section IV Making the lists | 111 |
Section V Using the lists | 169 |
Appendix 1 Proper noun tagging in the BNC | 183 |
Appendix 2 Closed lexical set headwords | 187 |
Appendix 3 The Essential Word List | 188 |
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Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing I. S. P. Nation No preview available - 2016 |
Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing I. S. P. Nation No preview available - 2016 |
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1000 word family 18 corpora academic vocabulary Academic Word List acronyms affixes AntWordProfiler AT0>the Bauer and Nation BNC/COCA lists British National Corpus chapter contains content words corpus size counted as words course design Coverage Word Coverage Coxhead criteria cut-off point different words distinguish EWL headwords example family members frequency word list function words graded readers high frequency words homoforms homographs homonyms included inflected knowledge L2 beginners language learning lemmas level of word lexical coverage lexical sets lexical words marginal words master list mean coverage provided mid-frequency words million tokens multiword units New-GSL Notepad++ number of words polysemes proper names proper nouns purpose reading Schmitt Service List speech sub-corpora sub-corpus sub-lists subject area Table tagged technical vocabulary technical words text coverage text types transparent compounds unit of counting verb vocabulary learning vocabulary lists West’s Word Coverage Word word family lists word types Zipf’s law