Abstract The Vocabulary Levels Test (;) indicates the word frequency level that should be
used to select words for learning. The present study involves the development and …

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 …

Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary provides a practical introduction to using corpus
linguistics in vocabulary studies. Using freely available corpus tools, the author provides a …

This chapter reviews key vocabulary research and draws a number of conclusions regarding
teaching and learning. Areas addressed include the amount of vocabulary required to use …

High school education is an important stage of foreign language education. This study
examined the vocabulary in a 273,094-word corpus of high school EFL textbooks in China …

Frequency is an objective criterion that can be used to prioritize words when learning a
language for general purposes. However, instead of looking at individual word frequency …

Recently there has been some debate about the appropriacy of different lexical units in
pedagogy and research (eg, Brown et al., 2020; Dang & Webb, 2016a; Kremmel, 2016; …

This chapter examines current research on corpus-based word lists for second language
learners of English. It begins with a review of different kinds of corpus-based word lists. After …

The study investigates whether comprehension of derived words in text context requires a
complete understanding of word parts. It explores comprehension of derived words as a …

The awarding organizations that create and administer high‐stakes assessments for
beginner‐to‐low‐intermediate 16‐year‐old learners of French, German, and Spanish in …