Dr Yen Dang's paper on high-frequency words has been published
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 the greatest lexical coverage in spoken and written corpora.
Dr Yen Dang's article (co-written with Dr Webb and Dr Coxhead) has now been published online - please click here to view: Evaluating lists of high-frequency words: Teachers’ and learners’ perspectives - Thi Ngoc Yen Dang, Stuart Webb, Averil Coxhead, 2022
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