Philip Durrant

List of John Benjamins publications in which Philip Durrant is involved.

Journal

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

General Editor: Tove Larsson and Magali Paquot

ISSN 2215-1478 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1486

Title

Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies

Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul

Understanding vocabulary and its role in language learning is one of the central tasks of applied linguistic research. It is also an area that has seen, and continues to see, huge progress in terms of the complexity and diversity of work being done. While this makes for a rich and exciting research… read more

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2] 2022. xv, 325 pp.

Durrant, Philip, Hildegunn Dirdal and Veronica Dahlby Tveitan 2025 Vocabulary sophistication in children’s L2 school writing Cumulative Knowledge Building in Learner Corpus Research, Larsson, Tove and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 17–46 | Article

This paper tests three hypotheses about written vocabulary in child L2 English. Specifically, as children mature, (1) the mean frequency values of the nouns they use increase; (2) the mean frequencies of other parts-of-speech decrease; (3) the use of academic vocabulary increases only in certain… read more

Durrant, Philip 2022 Review of Leńko-Szymańska (2020): Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:1, pp. 139–143 | Review

Durrant, Philip, Joseph Moxley and Lee McCallum 2019 Vocabulary sophistication in First-Year Composition assignments International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:1, pp. 33–66 | Article

Recently-developed tools which quickly and reliably quantify vocabulary use on a range of measures open up new possibilities for understanding the construct of vocabulary sophistication. To take this work forward, we need to understand how these different measures relate to each other and to… read more

Durrant, Philip 2014 Corpus frequency and second language learners’ knowledge of collocations: A meta-analysis International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:4, pp. 443–477 | Article

Tests of second language learners’ knowledge of collocation have lacked a principled strategy for item selection, making claims about learners’ knowledge beyond the particular collocations tested difficult to evaluate. Corpus frequency may offer a good basis for item selection, if a reliable… read more

Durrant, Philip 2007 Nadja Nesselhauf. Collocations in a learner corpus. Functions of Language 14:2, pp. 251–261 | Miscellaneous