Making and using word lists for language learning and testing /

Word 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 th...

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Main Authors: Nation, I. S. P (Author), Nation, I. S. P. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Amsterdam : [2016]
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505 0 |a Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section€I. The uses of word lists; 1. Word lists; Course design ; Language teaching and learning ; Specialized vocabulary ; Language testing ; Factors affecting the making of word lists ; Influential word lists ; Section€II. Deciding what to count as words; 2. Types, lemmas, and word families; The unit of counting ; Types ; Lemmas ; Word families ; Lemmas versus word families ; Learners' knowledge of affixes 
505 8 |a 8. AcronymsNeeded research ; Recommendations ; 9. Function words; Recommendations ; Cut-off points; Section€III. Choosing and preparing the corpus; 10. Corpus selection and design; Text types and other factors ; Geographical divisions ; Age-related material ; Language learning situation ; Corpus size ; Proportion of text types in a corpus ; How do you divide a corpus into sub-corpora? ; Recommendations ; 11. Preparation for making word lists; Preparing the corpus ; Preparing the lists ; Preparing the program ; Recommendations ; Section IV. Making the lists; 12. Taking account of your purpose 
505 8 |a Purposes General service vocabulary ; General academic vocabulary ; Specialized vocabulary ; The vocabulary of English course books ; The vocabulary of graded readers ; Testing ; Approaches to making lists ; Range, frequency, dispersion ; Range ; Frequency ; Dispersion ; Combined measures ; Applying the criteria ; Other criteria ; Lexical sets ; Making additions because of the age of the corpus ; West's efficiency criteria ; Taking account of user characteristics ; Evaluating a word list ; Recommendations ; 13. Critiquing a word list: the BNC/COCA lists; Critiquing a word list 
505 8 |a The BNC/COCA word family lists The lists ; The making of the lists ; The 1st 1000 and 2nd 1000 word family lists ; The 3rd 1000 onwards ; Word families ; The nature of the families ; The validity of the BNC word family lists ; Evaluation and critique of the BNC/COCA lists ; 14. Specialized word lists; Values of specialized word lists ; Making a specialized word list ; Using a corpus-comparison approach to make technical word lists ; Making an academic word list ; Recommendations ; 15. Making an essential word list for beginners; Which items should be included in a word list for beginners? 
505 8 |a The validity of the word family levels Note ; Recommendations ; 3. Homoforms and polysemes; Word senses ; Recommendations ; 4. Proper nouns; Needed research ; Recommendations ; 5. Hyphenated words and transparent compounds; Transparent compounds ; Needed research ; Recommendations ; 6. Multiword units; Co-occurrence and frequency ; The relationship between the meaning of the parts and€the€meaning€of€the€whole ; Including multiword units in word frequency counts ; Choosing between multiword lists ; Recommendations ; 7. Marginal words and foreign words; Foreign words ; Recommendations 
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