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Gardner, Dee; Davies, Mark – Applied Linguistics, 2014
This article presents our new Academic Vocabulary List (AVL), derived from a 120-million-word academic subcorpus of the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA; Davies 2012). We first explore reasons why a new academic core list is warranted, and why such a list is still needed in English language education. We also provide…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Word Lists, English Instruction, Word Frequency
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Teschner, Richard V.; Flemming, Jennifer – Hispania, 1996
Presents a conflation of and a comparison between the 1,646 verbs the Royal Academy's "Diccionario de la lengua espanola" (Dictionary of the Spanish Language) classifies as solely or partly intransitive and the 1,382 verbs that are so classified by the "Pequeno Larousse ilustrado" (Illustrated Larousse Small Dictionary).…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Spanish, Verbs, Word Lists
Cronnell, Bruce – 1978
The orthographic compounds (two or more words written as one word) in M. Rhode and B. Cronnell's lexicon of words used by elementary school children are categorized in this paper, primarily in terms of related semantic/syntactic structures. Following a discussion of orthographic compounds, the paper mentions procedures used by Rhode and Cronnell…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Elementary Education, Language Usage
Rhode, Mary – 1975
The sources used, the procedures followed, and the results obtained in updating the kindergarten through grade six communication skills lexicon are covered in this report. The final list of 322 new terms included in the lexicon are appended. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Dictionaries, Elementary Education