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Direct linkCoxhead, Averil; Parkinson, Jean; Tu'amoheloa, Falakiko – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
It is important for anyone entering a profession to learn their profession's specialised language. This is also true of those learning trades such as automotive technology or plumbing. Knowledge of specialised language allows trades professionals to speak to other professionals and read technical material. Although this technical language is new…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Word Lists, Vocabulary, Second Language Learning
Nation, Paul; Coxhead, Averil – Language Teaching, 2014
The English Language Institute (now the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies) at Victoria University of Wellington has a long history of corpus-based vocabulary research, especially after the arrival of the second director of the institute, H. V. George, and the appointment of Helen Barnard, whom George knew in India. George's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Vocabulary, Receptive Language
Webb, Stuart; Macalister, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
The researchers completed a corpus-driven analysis of 688 texts written for children, language learners, and older readers to determine the vocabulary size necessary for comprehension and the potential to incidentally learn vocabulary through reading each text type. The comparison between texts written for different audiences may indicate their…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Vocabulary, Nouns, Word Lists
