In:Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
I.S.P. Nation
[Not in series 208] 2016
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 8 September 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.208.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
Introduction
Section 1: The uses of word lists
Chapter 1: Word lists
Section 2: Deciding what to count as words
Chapter 2: Types, lemmas, word families
Chapter 3: Homoforms and polysemes
Chapter 4: Proper names
Chapter 5: Hyphenated words and transparent compounds
Chapter 6: Multiword units
Chapter 7: Marginal words and foreign words
Chapter 8: Acronyms
Chapter 9: Function words
Section 3: Choosing and preparing the corpus
Chapter 10: Corpus selection and design
Chapter 11: Preparation for making word lists
Section 4: Making the lists
Chapter 12: Taking account of your purpose
Chapter 13: Critiquing a word list: the BNC/COCA lists
Chapter 14: Specialized word lists
Chapter 15: Making an essential word list for beginners
Section 5: Using the lists
Chapter 16: Using word lists
Appendix 1: Proper noun tagging in the BNC
Appendix 2: Closed lexical set headwords187
Appendix 3: The Essential Word List
References
Author index
Subject index
