Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size
I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead
[Not in series, 233] 2021. xiii, 160 pp.
I.S.P. Nation
List of John Benjamins publications for which I.S.P. Nation plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition
Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
I.S.P. Nation
[Not in series, 208] 2016. xiv, 210 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Articles
2020 Reading a whole book to learn vocabulary Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.), pp. 31–44 | Chapter
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… read more
2018 Reading a whole book to learn vocabulary Approaches to learning, testing, and researching L2 vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.), pp. 30–43 | Article
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
2016 A Lexical Journey Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist: The life histories of some applied linguists, Ellis, Rod (ed.), pp. 47–58 | Article
2016 Chapter 3: Homoforms and polysemes Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 41–53 | Chapter
2016 Chapter 10: Corpus selection and design Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 95–105 | Chapter
2016 Chapter 4: Proper names Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 55–64 | Chapter
2016 Chapter 6: Multiword units Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 71–79 | Chapter
2016 Chapter 14: Specialized word lists Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 145–151 | Chapter
2006 How many idioms are there in English? ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 151, pp. 1–14 | Article
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
2004 1. A study of the most frequent word families in the British National Corpus Vocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, acquisition, and testing, Bogaards, Paul and Batia Laufer (eds.), pp. 3–13 | Chapter
2004 Measurement of formulaic sequences Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, processing and use, Schmitt, Norbert (ed.), pp. 23–35 | Article
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 | 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
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. | Article
1993 Vocabulary Size, Growth, and Use The Bilingual Lexicon, Schreuder, Robert and Bert Weltens (eds.), pp. 115 ff. | Article