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Research Investigating Lexical Coverage and Lexical Profiling: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What Needs to Be Examined
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Webb, Stuart – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
Studies of lexical coverage are valuable because they reveal the importance of vocabulary knowledge to comprehension. Lexical profiling research is also extremely useful because it indicates the vocabulary knowledge necessary to understand different text types such as novels, newspapers, academic lectures, television programs, and movies.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Learning about Language and Learners from Computer Programs
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Cobb, Tom – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
Making Nation's text analysis software accessible via the World Wide Web has opened up an exploration of how his learning principles can best be realized in practice. This paper discusses 3 representative episodes in the ongoing exploration. The first concerns an examination of the assumptions behind modeling what texts look like to learners with…
Descriptors: Nouns, Word Lists, Computer Software, Internet
Comparing the Vocabulary of Different Graded-Reading Schemes
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Wan-a-rom, Udorn – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2008
This study compared graded-reader wordlists with the General Service List (GSL; West, 1953) and investigated the words in those lists and the words actually used in graded-reader books. The wordlists from the 2 major graded-reader series, the GSL, and the words actually used in the graded readers were examined using the Range program. The…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Word Lists