Dang, TNY orcid.org/0000-0002-3189-7776, Webb, S and Coxhead, A (2022) Relationships between lexical coverage, learner knowledge, and teacher perceptions of the usefulness of high-frequency words. Foreign Language Annals, 55 (4). pp. 1212-1230. ISSN 0015-718X
Abstract
Recently researchers have proposed using information from teachers and learners to supplement the information from corpora in the selection of the most useful words for foreign language learners. Yet the extent to which these data sets correlate to one another is unclear. This study explicitly investigated the relationships between (a) the lexical coverage in 18 corpora, (b) the knowledge of 275 Vietnamese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, and (c) the perceptions of 78 EFL teachers of the usefulness of 973 high-frequency words. The correlations between lexical coverage and the other two factors were significant but small, and the correlations between learner vocabulary knowledge and teacher perceptions were large. Teacher perceptions better-predicted learner knowledge than lexical coverage. This study confirms the value of lexical coverage as a key criterion to select words for foreign language learners, and also highlights the importance of teachers' perceptions of usefulness on ultimate vocabulary learning in EFL contexts.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Dang, T. N. Y., Webb, S., & Coxhead, A. (2022). Relationships between lexical coverage, learner knowledge, and teacher perceptions of the usefulness of high-frequency words. Foreign Language Annals, 55, 1212– 1230., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12663. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. |
Keywords: | corpus linguistics; high frequency words; learner vocabulary knowledge; lexical coverage; teacher cognition |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2022 11:37 |
Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2024 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/flan.12663 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193584 |