RESEARCH

Although we have been so busy developing new corpora, new word lists and new online tools that we have not had time to write many academic papers about the NGSL Project, our open source lists have been out for more than a decade and have been utilized in dozens of academic studies. Below is a bibliography of research articles we or others have published where one or more of the NGSL Project words lists were used as a significant part of the study .

We will continue to add to this page as we come across the research. Please let us know of any others articles that you feel should be mentioned here.

Aoki, R. (2016), "Characteristics of high school entrance exams". Tokyo Women's College of Languages and Cultures Studies Journal, 24, 1-20.

Aziz, A., & Roslim, N. (2021). Relevance of the New General Service List in selecting reading passages for ESL students. European Journal of English Language Teaching, 6(6).

Bennett, P., & Stoeckel, T. (2013). Developing equivalent forms of a test of general and academic vocabulary. In N. Sonda & A. Krause (Eds.), JALT2012 Conference Proceedings. Tokyo: JALT. 

Browne, C. (2021), "The NGSL Project: Building Wordlists and Resources to help EFL Learners (and Teachers) to Succeed".  Invited Chapter in Teaching with Technology 2020, Selected Papers from the JALTCALL 2020 Conference. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.37546/JALTSIG.CALL2020.1

Browne, C. (2016), "The NGSL, NAWL, TSL and BSL: Building a Path to EFL Success through Word Lists and Online Tools".  In Vocab@Tokyo Published Proceedings. Paper presented at Vocab@Tokyo Conference: Tokyo, Japan.

Browne, C. (2016), Miyata, Y. and Kawauchi, Y. (2016), "Does the NGSL provide good coverage for authentic listening materials such as TV shows and movies? A quick look at Star Wars and Friends". In Vocab@Tokyo Published Proceedings. Paper presented at Vocab@Tokyo Conference: Tokyo, Japan.

Browne, C. (2014), "The New General Service List Version 1.01:  Getting Better All the Time”, Korea TESOL Journal, KOTESOL, 11:1, 35-50.

Browne, C. (2014), "A New General Service List: The Better Mousetrap We’ve Been Looking For?”, Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 3:2, 1-10.

Browne, C. (November, 2013), "A New General Service Vocabulary List: Helping Students Help Themselves”, The Language Teacher, 37:6, 43.

Browne, C. (November, 2013), "A New General Service Vocabulary for 2nd Language Learners”, The English Connection, KOTESOL, 13:3, 10-12.

Browne, C. (July, 2013), "The New General Service List: Celebrating 60 years of vocabulary learning”, The Language Teacher, 37:4, 13-15.

Browne, C. (May, 2013), “The New General Service List: A Core Vocabulary List for EFL Students and Teachers”, Cambridge Connections, Cambridge, 1-2.

Burkett, T (2015), "An Investigation into the Use of Frequency Vocabulary Lists in University Intensive English Programs". International Journal of Bilingual & Multilingual Teachers of English, Int. J. Bilin. Mult. Teach. Eng.3, No.2.

Chanasattru, S., & Tangkiengsirisin, S. (2017). The Word List Distribution in Social Science Research Articles.

Culligan, B. A. (2019). Evaluating Corpora with Word Lists and Word Difficulty. Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 8(1), 29-38.

Denisona, G. C., & Custanceb, I. (2020). Vocabulary learning using student-created class vocabulary lists. Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 9(2), 1-8.

Dooley, P. (2022). The New General Service List and English 5 Grades: To what extent does knowledge of high-frequency words influence results for Swedish school pupils?.

Gilmore, A., & Millar, N. (2018). The language of civil engineering research articles: A corpus-based approach. English for Specific Purposes, 51, 1-17.

Hashimoto, S, Yu, Y, Shi, J and Zhan, H (2015), "Profiling Japanese EST students' vocabulary ability using the New General Service List Test (NGSLT) and the New Academic Word List Test (NAWLT)" ICAMechS, pp. 170-173 .

Hendry, C., & Sheepy, E. (2018). How much vocabulary is needed for comprehension of research publications in education?. Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters–short papers from EUROCALL 2018, 94.

Higginbotham, G., & Reid, J. (2018). The Lexical Sophistication of Second Language Learners’ Academic Essays. Journal of English for Academic Purposes.

Iwamoto, M., & Kramer, B. (2020). NGSL Coverage of the SHS Entrance Exam and the National Center Test. The Language Teacher, 44(5), 3-8.

Kitano, M., & Chiba, K. (2019). Motivating Low-Achievement Learners to Prepare for Weekly Vocabulary Tests: The Come-Back Vocabulary Test. VERB, 8:1, 29-34.

Kinkade, J. T. (2019). Building Vocabulary and Agency With an Online App. JALT Postconference Publication, 508.

北野マグダ, & 千葉克裕. (2018). 語彙知識の一側面: 日本人大学生の理解が不足している高頻度語彙に関する考察. 文教大学国際学部紀要, 29(1), 19-29.

Laufer, B. (2014). Vocabulary in a second language: Selection, acquisition, and testing: A commentary on four studies for JALT vocabulary SIG. Vocabulary learning and instruction, 3(2), 38-46.

Lindgren, S.A. (2015), "Academic vocabulary and readability in EFL theses", Signe-Anita Lindegren,  Lexical Issues in L2 Writing, 155.

MacDonald, E. (2017), "Vocabulary Coverage of the NGSL for the Japanese National Center Test Between 2014-17" (unpublished MA paper for Kanda Gaigo University).

MacDonald, E. (2019) An Analysis of Vocabulary Level in Reading Passages of the National Center Test. Shiken, 23(2), 19-27.

McLean, S., Ishii, T., Stoeckel, T., Bennett, P., & Matsumoto, Y. (2016). An edited version of the first eight 1,000-word frequency bands of the Japanese-English version of the Vocabulary Size Test. The Language Teacher, 40(4), 3-7. 

Maschio, C. (2017), "Using the New General Service List (NGSL) to develop level appropriate material" (unpublished MA paper for Kanda Gaigo University).

Matsuo, T., McLean, S., & Cornwell, S. Measuring Attrition of L2 Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge Over the Summer Vacation.

Moon, Y. (2017). Are Different Types of Vocabulary Needed for Comprehending General and Academic Texts?. English Teaching, 72(3), 47-68.

Nadasdy, P., Aizawa, K., & Iso, T. (2018). Testing the reliability of the New General Service List Test (NGSLT) in order to better evaluate Japanese university students’ written receptive vocabulary levels. Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters, 220.

Nakayama, S. (2022). A close examination of vocabulary in Japanese EFL textbooks. In P. Ferguson, & R. Derrah (Eds.), Reflections and new perspectives. JALT. https://doi.org/10.37546/JALTPCP2021-24.

Rahmani, A., Asadi, V., & Xodabande, I. (2022). Using mobile devices for vocabulary learning outside the classroom: Improving the English as foreign language learners’ knowledge of high-frequency words. Frontiers in Psychology, 13.

Sheridan, R. & Markslag, L. 2017). Effective Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary: An Introduction to Engaging Cooperative Vocabulary Card Activities. PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, v53 p214-229. 

Shindarov, N. (2021). Comparing the EWL and NGSL-S 1.2 vocabulary and its English profile levels distribution. Съпоставително езикознание/Сопоставительное языкознание, (1), 36-45.

Shin'ichi, H., Yan, Y., Jie, S., & Haiyan, Z. (2015, August). Profiling Japanese EST students' vocabulary ability using the New General Service List Test (NGSLT) and the New Academic Word List Test (NAWLT). In Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS), 2015 International Conference on (pp. 170-173). IEEE.

Stoeckel, T., Ishii, T., & Bennett, P. (2018) A Japanese-English bilingual version of the New General Service List Test. JALT Journal. 

Stoeckel, T., & Stewart, J. (2016). The “I don’t know” option and L1 answer choices: A comparison of four variants of the Vocabulary Size Test. In B. Kramer (Ed.) Vocab@Tokyo Published Proceedings.

Stoekel, T. (2019). “An examination of the New General Service List” Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 8(1) 53-61.

Stoeckel T. & Bennett, P. (2015). "A test of the New General Service List". Vocabulary Learning and Instruction,  4  (1), 18.

Therova, D. (2020). Review of academic word lists. TESL-EJ, 24(1).

Uehara, S., Haraki, H., & McLean, S. (2022). Developing a Discipline-Specific Corpus and High-Frequency Word List for Science and Engineering Students in Graduate School. Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 11(2), 57-68.

Valizadeh, M., & Xodabande, I. (2021). General service and academic words in psychology research articles: a corpus based study. Journal of Asia TEFL, 18(3), 959.

Veerachaisantikul, A. & Chootarut, S. (2016). General vocabulary in Thai EFL university students’ writing: A corpus-based lexical study. Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 1(1), 52-57.

Wong, A. (2022). Changes in High-Frequency Vocabulary Use in Three Writing Tasks. 大阪女学院大学紀要第18号, 187-201.

Wadden, P., Browne, C., & Nation, P. (2018). Teaching and learning vocabulary in the Japanese university. In Teaching English at Japanese Universities (pp. 84-96). Routledge.

Zakian, M., Xodabande, I., Valizadeh, M., & Yousefvand, M. (2022). Out-of-the-classroom learning of English vocabulary by EFL learners: investigating the effectiveness of mobile assisted learning with digital flashcards. Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 7(1), 16.