Tom Cobb
Biographic Data
| ID | 4556935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Cobb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Cobb |
| SIGNATURE | COBB T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université du Québec à Montréal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Nuclear Word Family List
This article introduces the NFL7 (Nuclear Family List 7), a list of the 2,887 most frequent "nuclear" word families, that is, families that include just the most frequent family members and exclude those that constitute less than 7% of family occurrences. The NFL7 was developed by using a dedicated computer program, the Nuclear List Builder (freely available to users). To construct the list, we used that tool to reduce the complete BNC/COCA lists…
The Dark Knight’s Tenth Anniversary
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Richard White's The Republic for Which it Stands
How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007)
There is current research consensus that second language (L2) learners are able to adequately comprehend general English written texts if they know 98% of the words that occur in the materials. This important finding prompts an important question: How much English vocabulary do English as a second language (ESL) learners need to know to achieve this crucial level of known-word coverage? A landmark paper by Nation (2006) provides a rather daunting…
Corpus Use in Language Learning
This study applied systematic meta-analytic procedures to summarize findings from experimental and quasi-experimental investigations into the effectiveness of using the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics for second language learning or use, here referred to as data-driven learning (DDL). Analysis of 64 separate studies representing 88 unique samples reporting sufficient data indicated that DDL approaches result in large overall effects fo…
Comparing count-based and band-based indices of word frequency
Second language acquisition
Second language acquisition: an introductory course (3rd edition), by Susan Gass and Larry Selinker, Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2008, xviii + 593 pp., £62.50/US$100.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8
Teaching and researching writing
Vocabulary profiles as predictors of the academic performance of Teaching English as a Second Language trainees
Is there any measurable learning from hands-on concordancing
Corpus Use in Language Learning
This study applied systematic meta-analytic procedures to summarize findings from experimental and quasi-experimental investigations into the effectiveness of using the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics for second language learning or use, here referred to as data-driven learning (DDL). Analysis of 64 separate studies representing 88 unique samples reporting sufficient data indicated that DDL approaches result in large overall effects fo…
Vocabulary profiles as predictors of the academic performance of Teaching English as a Second Language trainees
Is there any measurable learning from hands-on concordancing
Comparing count-based and band-based indices of word frequency
How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007)
There is current research consensus that second language (L2) learners are able to adequately comprehend general English written texts if they know 98% of the words that occur in the materials. This important finding prompts an important question: How much English vocabulary do English as a second language (ESL) learners need to know to achieve this crucial level of known-word coverage? A landmark paper by Nation (2006) provides a rather daunting…
The Nuclear Word Family List
This article introduces the NFL7 (Nuclear Family List 7), a list of the 2,887 most frequent "nuclear" word families, that is, families that include just the most frequent family members and exclude those that constitute less than 7% of family occurrences. The NFL7 was developed by using a dedicated computer program, the Nuclear List Builder (freely available to users). To construct the list, we used that tool to reduce the complete BNC/COCA lists…
Second language acquisition
Second language acquisition: an introductory course (3rd edition), by Susan Gass and Larry Selinker, Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2008, xviii + 593 pp., £62.50/US$100.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8
Teaching and researching writing
Is there any measurable learning from hands-on concordancing
Teaching and researching writing
Vocabulary profiles as predictors of the academic performance of Teaching English as a Second Language trainees
Second language acquisition
Second language acquisition: an introductory course (3rd edition), by Susan Gass and Larry Selinker, Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2008, xviii + 593 pp., £62.50/US$100.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8
Comparing count-based and band-based indices of word frequency
How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007)
There is current research consensus that second language (L2) learners are able to adequately comprehend general English written texts if they know 98% of the words that occur in the materials. This important finding prompts an important question: How much English vocabulary do English as a second language (ESL) learners need to know to achieve this crucial level of known-word coverage? A landmark paper by Nation (2006) provides a rather daunting…
Corpus Use in Language Learning
This study applied systematic meta-analytic procedures to summarize findings from experimental and quasi-experimental investigations into the effectiveness of using the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics for second language learning or use, here referred to as data-driven learning (DDL). Analysis of 64 separate studies representing 88 unique samples reporting sufficient data indicated that DDL approaches result in large overall effects fo…
The Dark Knight’s Tenth Anniversary
Preview this article: The Dark Knight’s Tenth Anniversary, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/fint/16/4/fiin.16.4.16_1-1.gif
Richard White's The Republic for Which it Stands
The Nuclear Word Family List
This article introduces the NFL7 (Nuclear Family List 7), a list of the 2,887 most frequent "nuclear" word families, that is, families that include just the most frequent family members and exclude those that constitute less than 7% of family occurrences. The NFL7 was developed by using a dedicated computer program, the Nuclear List Builder (freely available to users). To construct the list, we used that tool to reduce the complete BNC/COCA lists…
Linguistics (7 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Text Readability and Simplification (4 works) · Vocabulary (4 works)