Philip Durrant
List of John Benjamins publications for which Philip Durrant plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2215-1478 | E-ISSN 2215-1486
Title
Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies
Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2] 2022. xv, 325 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
2024 Vocabulary sophistication in children’s L2 school writing International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper tests three hypotheses about written vocabulary in child L2 English. Specifically, as children mature, (1) the mean frequency values of the nouns they use increase; (2) the mean frequencies of other parts-of-speech decrease; (3) the use of academic vocabulary increases only in certain… read more
2019 Vocabulary sophistication in First-Year Composition assignments International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:1, pp. 33–66 | Article
Recently-developed tools which quickly and reliably quantify vocabulary use on a range of measures open up new possibilities for understanding the construct of vocabulary sophistication. To take this work forward, we need to understand how these different measures relate to each other and to… read more
2014 Corpus frequency and second language learners’ knowledge of collocations: A meta-analysis International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:4, pp. 443–477 | Article
Tests of second language learners’ knowledge of collocation have lacked a principled strategy for item selection, making claims about learners’ knowledge beyond the particular collocations tested difficult to evaluate. Corpus frequency may offer a good basis for item selection, if a reliable… read more
2007 Nadja Nesselhauf. Collocations in a learner corpus. Functions of Language 14:2, pp. 251–261 | Miscellaneous