I.S.P. Nation

List of John Benjamins publications for which I.S.P. Nation plays a role.

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Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size

I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead

[Not in series, 233] 2021. xiii, 160 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

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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
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Nation, I.S.P. and Parent. 2016. Chapter 3: Homoforms and polysemes. Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 41–53
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Nation, I.S.P. and Polina Kobeleva. 2016. Chapter 4: Proper names. Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 55–64
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Nation, I.S.P., Shin and Lynn E. Grant. 2016. Chapter 6: Multiword units. Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 71–79
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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
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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
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Read, John and I.S.P. Nation. 2004. Measurement of formulaic sequences. Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, processing and use, Schmitt, Norbert (ed.), pp. 23–35
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Laufer, Batia and I.S.P. Nation. 2001. Passive vocabulary size and speed of meaning recognition: Are they related?. EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Anna Nizegorodcew (eds.), pp. 7–28
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. 2001. 2. Using small corpora to investigate learner needs: Two vocabulary research tools. Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice, Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry (eds.), pp. 31 ff.
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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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