Chapter 1
Pioneering research on vocabulary control
Article outline
- 1.1Early interests in vocabulary control
- 1.2The objective approach to vocabulary selection
- 1.2.1Edward L. Thorndike
- 1.2.2Ernest Horn
- 1.2.3Lawrence Faucett and Itsu Maki
- 1.2.4The strengths and limitations of statistical word-counts
- 1.3The subjective approach
- 1.3.1Harold Palmer
- 1.3.2Michael West
- 1.3.2.1West’s defining vocabulary
- 1.4The logical approach
- 1.5The General Service List: Confrontation of the competing approaches
- 1.5.1The Carnegie Conferences
- 1.5.2The General Service List
- 1.5.3Criticism of the GSL
- 1.6Summary
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