I.S.P. Nation
List of John Benjamins publications for which I.S.P. Nation plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Articles
This chapter examines whether it is a good idea to choose a book that interests you and read it through from the beginning to the end learning all the new words you meet. For the analysis, it is assumed that learners already know the most frequent 3,000 words of English. The criteria used to guide… read more | Chapter
This paper investigates whether it is a good idea to choose a book that interests you and read it through from the beginning to the end learning all the new words you meet. For the analysis, it is assumed that learners already know the most frequent 3,000 words of English. The criteria used to… read more | Article
Nation, I.S.P., Averil Coxhead, Teresa Mihwa Chung and Quero. 2016.
Chapter 14: Specialized word lists.
Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 145–151
Chapter
The word idiom and its derivatives idiomatic, idiomatically and idiomaticity are used with a wide range of meanings. Idiomatic English is used to refer to fluent language use that sounds like that of a native speaker. Items loosely classed as idioms include colloquial expressions, collocations,… read more | Article
This paper examines the relationship between fluency and vocabulary size, and also between fluency and word frequency level. Fluency was operationalised as the time learners need to recognize meanings of words sampled from different frequency levels. It was measured by a computerised vocabulary… read more | Article
Nation, I.S.P. 1993.
Vocabulary Size, Growth, and Use.
The Bilingual Lexicon, Schreuder, Robert and Bert Weltens (eds.), pp. 115 ff.
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