High-frequency words in academic spoken English: corpora and learners [PDF]
ELT Journal, 2019 Abstract EAP teachers and course designers usually assume that learners have already mastered the most frequent words of general language before entering their courses. Therefore, they focus on words that are outside high-frequency vocabulary but common in academic written English.
Thi Ngoc Yen Dang
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Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words [PDF]
npj Science of Learningd Early readers encounter thousands of printed words in children’s books. The frequency with which they see each word shapes both neural and behavioral responses.
Fang Wang +5 more
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Problems with Cosine as a Measure of Embedding Similarity for High Frequency Words [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 Cosine similarity of contextual embeddings is used in many NLP tasks (e.g., QA, IR, MT) and metrics (e.g., BERTScore). Here, we uncover systematic ways in which word similarities estimated by cosine over BERT embeddings are understated and trace this ...
Kaitlyn Zhou +3 more
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Developing Persian Quick Speech in Noise With Words Containing High Frequency Phonemes: Determining its Validity and Equivalency [PDF]
Ṭibb-i Tavānbakhshī, 2023 Background and Aims The quick speech in noise (Q-SIN) test shows how difficult it is to perceive speech in noise by determining signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) loss.
Farzaneh Fatahi +6 more
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Technical Terms Used in General English Textbooks Across Disciplines
Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2022 The study aimed to analyze lexical items underpinned in the textbooks used in the current teaching of ESP and GE. Using content analysis, a systematic evaluation of texts to examine nuances to bridge the gap between quantitative and qualitative data ...
Sammy Q. Dolba
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High frequency word entrainment in spoken dialogue [PDF]
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies Short Papers - HLT '08, 2008 Cognitive theories of dialogue hold that entrainment, the automatic alignment between dialogue partners at many levels of linguistic representation, is key to facilitating both production and comprehension in dialogue. In this paper we examine novel types of entrainment in two corpora —Switchboard and the Columbia Games corpus.
Hirschberg, Julia Bell +2 more
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Frequency Effects on Spelling Error Recognition: An ERP Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Spelling errors are ubiquitous in all writing systems. Most studies exploring spelling errors focused on the phonological plausibility of errors. However, unlike typical pseudohomophones, spelling errors occur in naturally produced written language.
Ekaterina V. Larionova +2 more
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The Contribution of General High-Frequency, Core-Academic, and Academic-Technical Words to ESP Reading Comprehension [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2017 Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se.
Ali Derakhshan, Ali Malmir
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Evaluating lists of high-frequency words: Teachers’ and learners’ perspectives
Language Teaching Research, 2020 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 /
Thi Ngoc Yen Dang +2 more
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Word frequency influences on the list length effect and associative memory in young and older adults [PDF]
, 2016 Many studies show that age deficits in memory are smaller for information supported by preexperimental experience. Many studies also find dissociations in memory tasks between words that occur with high and low frequencies in language, but the literature
Badham, Stephen P. +3 more
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