I.S.P. Nation

List of John Benjamins publications in which I.S.P. Nation is involved.

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Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size

I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead

Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language. Unfortunately, the measurement of native-speaker vocabulary size has been one of the most… read more

[Not in series, 233] 2021. xiii, 160 pp.

Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing

I.S.P. Nation

Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on vocabulary load, and vocabulary test development. This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe… read more

[Not in series, 208] 2016. xiv, 210 pp.

Nation, I.S.P. 2020 Reading a whole book to learn vocabulary Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.), pp. 31–44 | Chapter

This chapter examines whether it is a good idea to choose a book that interests you and read it through from the beginning to the end learning all the new words you meet. For the analysis, it is assumed that learners already know the most frequent 3,000 words of English. The criteria used to… read more

Nation, I.S.P. 2018 Reading a whole book to learn vocabulary Approaches to learning, testing, and researching L2 vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.), pp. 30–43 | Article

This paper investigates whether it is a good idea to choose a book that interests you and read it through from the beginning to the end learning all the new words you meet. For the analysis, it is assumed that learners already know the most frequent 3,000 words of English. The criteria used to… read more

Nation, I.S.P. 2016 A Lexical Journey Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist: The life histories of some applied linguists, Ellis, Rod (ed.), pp. 47–58 | Article

Nation, I.S.P. and Parent 2016 Chapter 3: Homoforms and polysemes Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 41–53 | Chapter

Nation, I.S.P. and Sorell 2016 Chapter 10: Corpus selection and design Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 95–105 | Chapter

Nation, I.S.P. and Polina Kobeleva 2016 Chapter 4: Proper names Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 55–64 | Chapter

Nation, I.S.P., Shin and Lynn E. Grant 2016 Chapter 6: Multiword units Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 71–79 | Chapter

Nation, I.S.P., Averil Coxhead, Teresa Mihwa Chung and Quero 2016 Chapter 14: Specialized word lists Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 145–151 | Chapter

Grant, Lynn E. and I.S.P. Nation 2006 How many idioms are there in English? ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 151, pp. 1–14 | Article

The word idiom and its derivatives idiomatic, idiomatically and idiomaticity are used with a wide range of meanings. Idiomatic English is used to refer to fluent language use that sounds like that of a native speaker. Items loosely classed as idioms include colloquial expressions, collocations,… read more

Nation, I.S.P. 2004 1. A study of the most frequent word families in the British National Corpus Vocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, acquisition, and testing, Bogaards, Paul and Batia Laufer (eds.), pp. 3–13 | Chapter

Read, John and I.S.P. Nation 2004 Measurement of formulaic sequences Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, processing and use, Schmitt, Norbert (ed.), pp. 23–35 | Article

Laufer, Batia and I.S.P. Nation 2001 Passive vocabulary size and speed of meaning recognition: Are they related? EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Anna Nizegorodcew (eds.), pp. 7–28 | Article

This paper examines the relationship between fluency and vocabulary size, and also between fluency and word frequency level. Fluency was operationalised as the time learners need to recognize meanings of words sampled from different frequency levels. It was measured by a computerised vocabulary… read more

Nation, I.S.P. 2001 2. Using small corpora to investigate learner needs: Two vocabulary research tools Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice, Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry (eds.), pp. 31–46 | Article

Nation, I.S.P. 1993 Vocabulary Size, Growth, and Use The Bilingual Lexicon, Schreuder, Robert and Bert Weltens (eds.), pp. 115–134 | Article