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Direct linkEgbert, Jesse; Burch, Brent – Applied Linguistics, 2023
The words in a language or language variety are often rank ordered in lists that are meant to reflect the relative importance of those words to language users and learners of a language. This rank ordering is done on the basis of the relative prevalence of words in a corpus. Lexical prevalence is often operationalized as measures of frequency,…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Incidence, Computational Linguistics, Textbooks
Brezina, Vaclav; Gablasova, Dana – Applied Linguistics, 2015
The current study presents a "New General Service List (new-GSL)", which is a result of robust comparison of four language corpora ("LOB," "BNC," "BE06," and "EnTenTen12") of the total size of over 12 billion running words. The four corpora were selected to represent a variety of corpus sizes and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Vocabulary, Language Usage
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
Martinez, Ron; Schmitt, Norbert – Applied Linguistics, 2012
There is little dispute that formulaic sequences form an important part of the lexicon, but to date there has been no principled way to prioritize the inclusion of such items in pedagogic materials, such as ESL/EFL textbooks or tests of vocabulary knowledge. While wordlists have been used for decades, they have only provided information about…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Word Lists, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency
Ming-Tzu, Karen Wang; Nation, Paul – Applied Linguistics, 2004
The Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000) consists of 570 word families that are frequent and wide ranging in academic texts. It was created by counting the frequency, range, and evenness of spread of word forms in a specially constructed academic corpus. This study examines the words in the Academic Word List (AWL) to see if the existence of…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Semantics, Word Frequency, English
