Author
Nation, I. S. P., author.
Title
Making and using word lists for language learning and testing / I.S
Imprint
Amsterdam : Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
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Contents
Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing; Title page
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section€I. The uses of word lists; 1. Wor
learning ; Specialized vocabulary ; Language testing ; Factors affecting the
Section€II. Deciding what to count as words; 2. Types, lemmas, and word
Word families ; Lemmas versus word families ; Learners' knowledge of affix
The validity of the word family levels Note ; Recommendations ; 3. Homofo
; 4. Proper nouns; Needed research ; Recommendations ; 5. Hyphenated w
compounds ; Needed research ; Recommendations ; 6. Multiword units; Co
the meaning of the parts and€the€meaning€of€the€whole ; Including mult
between multiword lists ; Recommendations ; 7. Marginal words and foreig
8. AcronymsNeeded research ; Recommendations ; 9. Function words; Rec
and preparing the corpus; 10. Corpus selection and design; Text types and
material ; Language learning situation ; Corpus size ; Proportion of text typ
corpora? ; Recommendations ; 11. Preparation for making word lists; Prepa
program ; Recommendations ; Section IV. Making the lists; 12. Taking acco
Purposes General service vocabulary ; General academic vocabulary ; Spec
books ; The vocabulary of graded readers ; Testing ; Approaches to making
Frequency ; Dispersion ; Combined measures ; Applying the criteria ; Othe
the age of the corpus ; West's efficiency criteria ; Taking account of user ch
Recommendations ; 13. Critiquing a word list: the BNC/COCA lists; Critiqui
The BNC/COCA word family lists The lists ; The making of the lists ; The 1s
onwards ; Word families ; The nature of the families ; The validity of the BN
BNC/COCA lists ; 14. Specialized word lists; Values of specialized word lists
comparison approach to make technical word lists ; Making an academic wo
word list for beginners; Which items should be included in a word list for be
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Subject
Vocabulary -- Study and teaching.
Vocabulary -- Ability testing.
Language and languages -- Word frequency.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
Language teachers -- Training of.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. (OCoL
Language and languages -- Word frequency. (OCoLC)fst00992275
Language teachers -- Training of. (OCoLC)fst00992428
Vocabulary -- Ability testing. (OCoLC)fst01766129
Vocabulary -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst01168335
ISBN
9789027266279 (pdf)
9027266271 (pdf)
9789027212443 (hb ; alk. paper)
9027212449