Words that second language learners are likely to hear, read, and use
Davidson, Douglas ; Indefrey, Peter and Gullberg, Marianne LU
(2008)
In Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
11(1).
p.133-146
- Abstract
- In the present study, we explore whether multiple data sources may be more effective than single sources at predicting the words that language learners are likely to know. Second language researchers have hypothesized that there is a relationship between word frequency and the likelihood that words will be encountered or used by second language learners, but it is not yet clear how this relationship should be effectively measured. An analysis of word frequency measures showed that spoken language frequency alone may predict the occurrence of words in learner textbooks, but that multiple corpora as well as textbook status can improve predictions of learner usage.
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- author
- Davidson, Douglas
; Indefrey, Peter
and Gullberg, Marianne
LU
- publishing date
- 2008
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- second language acquisition, word frequency, method, corpus analysis
- in
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- volume
- 11
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 133 - 146
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:40649107239
- ISSN
- 1366-7289
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1366728907003264
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)
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