Word Families

Selecting Television Programs for Language Learning: Investigating Television Programs from the Same Genre

“…The lists were based on the frequency and range of occurrence of words in the BNC. The word families in the lists were categorized as Level 6 according to Bauer and Nation's (1993) If the most frequent 3,000 word families plus proper nouns and marginal words is sufficient for comprehension of television programs (Webb & Rodgers, 2009a), examining the low frequency vocabulary found in the 4,000-14,000 word lists which may be unknown to L2 learners may indicate the potential for incidental vocabulary learning. The number of times word families from these word lists were encountered may indicate whether unknown vocabulary is more likely to reoccur in related television programs than unrelated programs.…”

Affix Acquisition Order in Serbian EFL Learners

“…The fact that affixes differ in terms of frequency, regularity, predictability and productivity, i.e. that affix accessibility and learnability is higher for some affixes than others, prompted Bauer and Nation (1993) to develop a seven-level affix order that can facilitate reading and function as a basis for guided teaching and learning. This list served as a reference point in a few articles focusing on L2 affix acquisition, some of which we will elaborate on in the next couple of paragraphs.…”

The interrelatedness of lexis and morphology in English language learning

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