Ben Naismith
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ben Naismith plays a role.
Articles
2022 Handle it in-house? Learner corpora frequency lists and lexical sophistication International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:3, pp. 291–320 | Article
Vocabulary lists of high-frequency lexical items are an important resource in language education and a key product of corpus research. However, no single vocabulary list will be useful for every learning context, with the appropriateness of such lists affected by the corpora on which they are… read more
2022 The University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute Corpus (PELIC) International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:1, pp. 121–138 | Article
This report introduces the University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute Corpus (PELIC; Juffs et al., 2020), a publicly available 4.2-million-word learner corpus of written texts. Collected over seven years in the University of Pittsburgh’s Intensive English Program, these texts were… read more