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Cobb, Tom; Laufer, Batia – Language Learning, 2021
This article introduces the NFL7 (Nuclear Family List 7), a list of the 2,887 most frequent "nuclear" word families, that is, families that include just the most frequent family members and exclude those that constitute less than 7% of family occurrences. The NFL7 was developed by using a dedicated computer program, the Nuclear List…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Morphology (Languages), Word Frequency, Receptive Language
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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