Frequency Dictionary of British English

Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learn

Vaclav Brezina, Dana Gablasova

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Routledge
30 November 2023

Dictionaries; Language: history & general works; Grammar, syntax; Reference works; Languages & ESL; English as a Second Language; English as a Second Language

Series: Routledge Frequency Dictionaries

A Frequency Dictionary of British English provides information about the frequency and distribution of words in British English.

The dictionary presents rich information about word frequencies and distributions in an accessible manner. In addition to textual and numerical information, the dictionary offers a range of visualisations to help understand the statistical properties of words. These visualisations are especially important for pedagogical uses of the book. This book also includes vocabulary exercises for learners of English to activate their vocabulary with the help of the dictionary. The dictionary is based on extensive research on current British English using the British National Corpus 2014, a 100-million-word corpus of contemporary British English developed at Lancaster University. The corpus represents a wide range of genres/registers of spoken and written English, including informal speech, fiction, newspapers, academic writing and e-language.

Additional support materials for this book are available at https://lancslex.lancs.ac.uk

This dictionary is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of users interested in current British English vocabulary including students, educators, journalists, material developers and researchers.

By: Vaclav Brezina, Dana Gablasova
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781032272696
ISBN 10: 1032272694
Series: Routledge Frequency Dictionaries
Pages: 340
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Frequency wordlist Alphabetical wordlist Frequency wordlist according to word classes New General Service List (New GSL) Vocabulary exercises

Vaclav Brezina is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University Dana Gablasova is Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University

Reviews for Frequency Dictionary of British English: Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learn

"""If you want to know how frequently words are used in different contexts across speech and writing and with what other words these are associated, you might be interested in a new dictionary ... This dictionary is based on the British National Corpus 2014, a large balanced dataset developed at Lancaster University that represents current British English usage. The dictionary will appeal to those interested in British English for research, as well as for the purposes of language learning and teaching. For students and teachers in particular, this dictionary offers a wide range of exercises to activate vocabulary knowledge ... The dictionary is accompanied by a website Lancslex that allows active engagement with frequency and distribution information about words in British English. The website’s user-friendly interface facilitates effortless word searches and text analysis for examining lexical sophistication."" - Words, words, words: A new Frequency Dictionary of British English, CASS, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science"