Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF FIGURES vii
4. LIST OF TABLES xi
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv
6. ABOUT THE AUTHORS xvii
7. CHAPTER 1 THE NEED FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED VOCABULARY LISTS (KVL) 1
8. CHAPTER 2 CREATING A LIST OF LEMMAS TO TEST 13
9. CHAPTER 3 DEVELOPING THE VOCABULARY TEST 33
10. CHAPTER 4 PILOTING THE ONLINE TEST 48
11. CHAPTER 5 WRITING AND REVISING THE TEST ITEMS, DEVELOPING THE ONLINE TEST, AND MAIN DATA COLLECTION 56
12. CHAPTER 6 ANALYSIS AND RANKING OF LEMMAS 68
13. CHAPTER 7 COMPARISON OF THE KVL WITH FREQUENCY LISTS 86
14. CHAPTER 8 EFFECTS OF COGNATENESS ON KVL RANKINGS 136
15. CHAPTER 9 COMPARISON OF THE KVL WITH ALTERNATIVE LISTS 152
16. CHAPTER 10 ACCESSING AND USING THE KVL 183
17. CHAPTER 11 FURTHER RESEARCH DIRECTIONS 187
18. APPENDIX 1 INSTRUCTIONS TO THE ITEM WRITERS 193
19. APPENDIX 2 LIST OF OFFENSIVE WORDS REMOVED 200
20. APPENDIX 3 SCREENSHOTS FROM THE VOCABULARY CHALLENGE WEBSITE 201
21. APPENDIX 4 TECHNICAL EXPLANATION OF THE GENERAL LINEAR MIXED MODEL (GLMM) RANKINGS 206
22. APPENDIX 5 TECHNICAL EXPLANATION OF THE PRECISION OF THE GLMM RANKINGS 209
23. APPENDIX 6 PATTERNS OF INCORRECT/MISSING SPANISH RESPONSES TO HIGHERFREQUENCY TARGET LEMMAS AND COMPARISON WITH GERMAN AND CHINESE RESPONSES TO THE SAME LEMMAS 215
24. APPENDIX 7 PATTERNS OF INCORRECT/MISSING GERMAN RESPONSES TO HIGHERFREQUENCY TARGET LEMMAS 223
25. APPENDIX 8 PATTERNS OF INCORRECT/MISSING CHINESE RESPONSES TO HIGHERFREQUENCY TARGET LEMMAS 231
26. APPENDIX 9 LEMMAS FOR WHICH THE SPANISH TEST PROMPT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ENGLISH TEST ANSWER (COGNATE) 235
27. APPENDIX 10 LEMMAS FOR WHICH THE GERMAN TEST PROMPT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ENGLISH TEST ANSWER (COGNATE) 239
28. APPENDIX 11 COMPARISON OF THE 114 WORDS KNOWN BY ALL RESPONDENTS IN BRYSBAERT ET AL. (2020) WITH KVL RESULTS 249
29. APPENDIX 12 BEST-KNOWN 30 LEMMAS ON THE SPANISH-KVL 253
30. APPENDIX 13 BEST-KNOWN 30 LEMMAS ON THE GERMAN-KVL 255
31. APPENDIX 14 BEST-KNOWN 30 LEMMAS ON THE CHINESE-KVL 257
32. APPENDIX 15 SAMPLE OF THE KVL-SPANISHTECHNICAL SPREADSHEET 259
33. REFERENCES 263
34. INDEX 273