
Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
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- Intro
- Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Section I. The uses of word lists
- 1. Word lists
- Course design
- Language teaching and learning
- Specialized vocabulary
- Language testing
- Factors affecting the making of word lists
- Influential word lists
- Section II. Deciding what to count as words
- 2. Types, lemmas, and word families
- The unit of counting
- Types
- Lemmas
- Word families
- Lemmas versus word families
- Learners' knowledge of affixes
- The validity of the word family levels
- Note
- Recommendations
- 3. Homoforms and polysemes
- Word senses
- Recommendations
- 4. Proper nouns
- Needed research
- Recommendations
- 5. Hyphenated words and transparent compounds
- Transparent compounds
- Needed research
- Recommendations
- 6. Multiword units
- Co-occurrence and frequency
- The relationship between the meaning of the parts and the meaning of the whole
- Including multiword units in word frequency counts
- Choosing between multiword lists
- Recommendations
- 7. Marginal words and foreign words
- Foreign words
- Recommendations
- 8. Acronyms
- Needed research
- Recommendations
- 9. Function words
- Recommendations
- Cut-off points
- Section III. Choosing and preparing the corpus
- 10. Corpus selection and design
- Text types and other factors
- Geographical divisions
- Age-related material
- Language learning situation
- Corpus size
- Proportion of text types in a corpus
- How do you divide a corpus into sub-corpora?
- Recommendations
- 11. Preparation for making word lists
- Preparing the corpus
- Preparing the lists
- Preparing the program
- Recommendations
- Section IV. Making the lists
- 12. Taking account of your purpose
- Purposes
- General service vocabulary
- General academic vocabulary
- Specialized vocabulary
- The vocabulary of English course books
- The vocabulary of graded readers
- Testing
- Approaches to making lists
- Range, frequency, dispersion
- Range
- Frequency
- Dispersion
- Combined measures
- Applying the criteria
- Other criteria
- Lexical sets
- Making additions because of the age of the corpus
- West's efficiency criteria
- Taking account of user characteristics
- Evaluating a word list
- Recommendations
- 13. Critiquing a word list: the BNC/COCA lists
- Critiquing a word list
- The BNC/COCA word family lists
- The lists
- The making of the lists
- The 1st 1000 and 2nd 1000 word family lists
- The 3rd 1000 onwards
- Word families
- The nature of the families
- The validity of the BNC word family lists
- Evaluation and critique of the BNC/COCA lists
- 14. Specialized word lists
- Values of specialized word lists
- Making a specialized word list
- Using a corpus-comparison approach to make technical word lists
- Making an academic word list
- Recommendations
- 15. Making an essential word list for beginners
- Which items should be included in a word list for beginners?
- What should be the unit of counting in a wordlist created for beginners?
- Research questions
- Materials
- The master list
- The corpora
- Procedure
- Ranking the headwords in the master list
- Determining the number of EWL headwords
- Assessing the EWL
- Ranking the headwords in the master list
- Determining the number of EWL headwords
- Assessing the EWL
- Discussion
- Section V. Using the lists
- 16. Using word lists
- Course design
- Setting long-range vocabulary learning goals
- Deciding on short-term vocabulary learning goals
- Language teaching and learning
- Vocabulary lists and learning from meaning-focused input
- Vocabulary lists and learning from meaning-focused output
- Vocabulary lists and deliberate language-focused learning
- Vocabulary lists and fluency development
- Designing graded reading programs
- Analyzing the vocabulary load of texts
- Developing vocabulary tests
- Appendix 1. Proper noun tagging in the BNC
- Appendix 2. Closed lexical set headwords
- Appendix 3. The Essential Word List
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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