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Direct linkWebb, Stuart – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Recently there has been some debate about the appropriacy of different lexical units in pedagogy and research (e.g., Brown et al., 2020; Dang & Webb, 2016a; Kremmel, 2016; Laufer & Cobb, 2020; McLean, 2018; Nation, 2016; Nation & Webb, 2011; Vilkaite-Lozdiene & Schmitt, 2020). The lexical unit (word types, lemmas, flemmas, word…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen; Webb, Stuart; Coxhead, Averil – Language Teaching Research, 2022
With a number of word lists available for teachers to choose from, teachers and students need to know which list provides the best return for learning? Four well-established lists were compared and it was found that BNC/COCA2000 (British National Corpus / Corpus of Contemporary American English 2000) and the New General Service List (New-GSL)…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Word Frequency, Teacher Attitudes, Vocabulary Skills
Download full textWebb, 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
Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen; Coxhead, Averil; Webb, Stuart – Language Learning, 2017
The linguistic features of academic spoken English are different from those of academic written English. Therefore, for this study, an Academic Spoken Word List (ASWL) was developed and validated to help second language (L2) learners enhance their comprehension of academic speech in English-medium universities. The ASWL contains 1,741 word…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Word Lists, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning
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
Rodgers, Michael P. H.; Webb, Stuart – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
In this study, the scripts of 288 television episodes were analyzed to determine the extent to which vocabulary reoccurs in related and unrelated television programs, and the potential for incidental vocabulary learning through watching one season (approximately 24 episodes) of television programs. The scripts consisted of 1,330,268 running words…
Descriptors: Television, Television Viewing, Scripts, Content Analysis
