1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480352803321

Autore

Nation I. S. P.

Titolo

Making and using word lists for language learning and testing / / I. S. P. Nation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages)

Disciplina

428.0071

Soggetti

Vocabulary - Study and teaching

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Second language acquisition - Study and teaching

Language learning and language teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Section I. The uses of word lists -- 1. Word lists -- Section II. Deciding what to count as words -- 2. Types, lemmas, and word families -- 3. Homoforms and polysemes -- 4. Proper nouns -- 5. Hyphenated words and transparent compounds -- 6. Multiword units -- 7. Marginal words and foreign words -- 8. Acronyms -- 9. Function words -- Section III. Choosing and preparing the corpus -- 10. Corpus selection and design -- 11. Preparation for making word lists -- Section IV. Making the lists -- 12. Taking account of your purpose -- 13. Critiquing a word list: the BNC/COCA lists -- 14. Specialized word lists -- 15. Making an essential word list for beginners -- Section V. Using the lists -- 16. Using word lists.

Sommario/riassunto

Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on vocabulary load, and vocabulary test development. This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe the factors they need to consider when they create frequency-based word lists. These include the purpose for which



the word list is to be used, the design of the corpus from which the list will be made, the unit of counting, and what should and should not be counted as words. The book draws on research to show the current state of knowledge of these factors and provides very practical guidelines for making word lists for language teaching and testing. The writer is well known for his work in the teaching and learning of vocabulary and in the creation of word lists and vocabulary size tests based on word lists.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996659457403316

Autore

Edmonds Alexander Johannes

Titolo

Triumph and Betrayal : Assyria’s Path to Empire, 935–745 BC / / Alexander Johannes Edmonds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2025]

2025

ISBN

3-11-159382-7

3-11-159371-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 361 p.)

Collana

Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie : Ergänzungsbände zur Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie , , 0502-7012 ; ; 17

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Avant-Propos -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- On kings, conventions, and dates -- Chapter 1 The rise of Assyria as an historical problem -- Chapter 2 Approaching the early Neo-Assyrian period -- Chapter 3 A political history of the early Neo-Assyrian period -- Chapter 4 Regional studies in the Neo-Assyrian expansion -- Chapter 5 Triumph and betrayal. The early Neo-Assyrian path to empire -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

While the study of Assyria as ‘the world’s first empire’ has never been more popular, the events of the foundational early Neo-Assyrian period (935–745 BC) remain only poorly understood and explained. This book



re-examines the historical question of Assyria’s expansion, presenting a novel reconstruction of the early Neo-Assyrian period with the latest data (including new Assyrian kings), detailed regional studies synthesising the newest historical and archaeological findings, and interpretative essays outlining new historical factors. The resultant history is unprecedentedly complex, containing newly discovered succession conflicts, difficult compromises with neighbouring powers, local dynasties appointed to Assyrian governorships, self-serving high officials, and sudden reverses in policy. In place of circular structuralist arguments for the Neo-Assyrian expansion, it presents a new model emphasising internal political conflict, and competing visions for Assyria’s future. This book is intended for historians and archaeologists of Assyria, for whom it will provide a new basis for research, and also for scholars of neighbouring disciplines and laypersons interested in what happens to an ancient state before it becomes an empire.