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Evaluating corpora with word lists and word difficulty [PDF]

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2019
This study examines the application of an IRT analysis of words on lists including the General Service List (GSL), New General Service List (NGSL), Academic Word List (AWL), New Academic Word List (NAWL), and TOEIC Service List (TSL).
Brent A. Culligan
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Academic word lists: A comprehensive review [PDF]

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction
The significance of vocabulary in academic success is well-established, particularly for second language learners navigating English Medium Instruction or academic contexts. This paper explores the development and evaluation of major academic word lists
Muhammad Asif Qureshi, Nosheen Malik
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Speech Audiometry: The Development of Lithuanian Bisyllabic Phonemically Balanced Word Lists for Evaluation of Speech Recognition [PDF]

Applied Sciences
Background and Objectives: Speech audiometry employs standardized materials, typically in the language spoken by the target population. Language-specific nuances, including phonological features, influence speech perception and recognition.
Vija Vainutienė, Justinas Ivaška, Vytautas Kardelis, Tatjana Ivaškienė, Eugenijus Lesinskas   +4 more
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Evaluating lists of high-frequency words: Teachers’ and learners’ perspectives [PDF]

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 / Corpus of Contemporary American English 2000) and the New General Service List (New-GSL) provided
Thi Ngoc Yen Dang, Stuart Webb, Averil Coxhead   +2 more
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A high-frequency sense list [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
A number of high-frequency word lists have been created to help foreign language learners master English vocabulary. These word lists, despite their widespread use, did not take word meaning into consideration.
Lei Liu, Tongxi Gong, Jianjun Shi, Yi Guo   +3 more
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Effect of word meaning on the frequency of disfluency in adults with developmental Stuttering [PDF]

مجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2013
Introduction: Stuttering is one of the most prevalent speech and language disorders. Symptomatology of stuttering has been surveyed from biological, developmental, environmental, emotional, learning and linguistic viewpoints.
Elham Masumi, Zohre Arani Kashani, Ali Ghorbani, Mohammad Kamali   +3 more
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Use of word lists in a high-stakes, low-exposure context:Topic-driven or frequency-informed [PDF]

, 2023
The awarding organisations that create and administer high-stakes assessments for beginner-to-low intermediate 16-year-old learners of French, German, and Spanish in England provide optional topic-driven word lists as guides for teachers and textbook ...
Dudley, Amber, Rachel Hawkes, Amber Dudley, Emma Marsden, Hawkes, Rachel, Marsden, Emma   +5 more
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Lists of Spanish sentences with equivalent predictability, phonetic content, length, and frequency of the last word [PDF]

, 2010
This paper presents a pool of Spanish sentences designed for use in cognitive research and speech processing in circumstances in which the effects of context are relevant.
Cervera Crespo, Teresa, Julio González-Alvarez, González Álvarez, Julio, González-Álvarez, Julio, Teresa Cervera   +4 more
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Parametric effects of word frequency in memory for mixed frequency lists. [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 39(6) of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (see record 2013-27860-001). In the article there were omissions in Figure 1. All versions of this article have been corrected.] The word frequency paradox refers to the finding that low frequency words are ...
Lynn J, Lohnas, Michael J, Kahana
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HelexKids:a word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children [PDF]

, 2016
In this article, we introduce HelexKids, an online written-word database for Greek-speaking children in primary education (Grades 1 to 6). The database is organized on a grade-by-grade basis,and on a cumulative basis by combining Grade 1 with Grades 2 to
Terzopoulos, AR, Niolaki, G.Z, Masterton, Jackie, Niolaki, GZ, Aris R. Terzopoulos, Terzopoulos, Aris, Duncan, L.G, Wilson, MAJ, Wilson, Mark A. J., Duncan, Lynne G., Niolaki, Georgia Z., Duncan, Lynne G.; id_orcid, Duncan, Lynne, Terzopoulos, A.R, Masterson, Jackie, Niolaki, Georgia Z.; id_orcid, Mark A. J. Wilson, Lynne G. Duncan, Jackie Masterson, Georgia Z. Niolaki, Wilson, Mark A.J., Niolaki, Georgia, Duncan, LG, Masterson, J, Wilson, M.A.J, Terzopoulos, Aris R.   +25 more
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