This article has two goals: to report on the trialling of fourteen 1,000 word-family lists made
from the British National Corpus, and to use these lists to see what vocabulary size is …

The present study compared L2 vocabulary acquisition from engagement with two different
online media: written blog posts and video blogs. It also explored whether there are …

This article presents an empirical study that investigates the role of vocabulary knowledge in
listening comprehension with 115 advanced Danish learners of English as a foreign …

The present study examines possible effects of extramural English (EE) on oral proficiency
(OP) and vocabulary (VOC). The study is based on data collected from Swedish learners of …

Abstract The Schonell et al.(1956) study of Australian oral English found that 2,000 word
families provided around 99 per cent lexical coverage of spoken discourse. Based on this …

This study investigated (a) the lexical demands of academic spoken English and (b) the
coverage of the Academic Word List (AWL) in academic spoken English. The researchers …

Introducing Electronic Text Analysis is a practical and much needed introduction to corpora–
bodies of linguistic data. Written specifically for students studying this topic for the first time …

Listening to the voices of learners as they write an essay or try to cope with unfamiliar words
in a text is a luxury often reserved for researchers. This book observes individuals …

Written for students of applied linguistics, this textbook is an indispensable introduction to
the area of vocabulary knowledge. By linking the latest research to an overview of how the …

This paper presents a three‐year longitudinal study in which the receptive vocabulary size
and lexical growth of a group of CLIL learners and of traditional EFL learners are compared …