An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research

By Rita Simpson-Vlach, Nick C. Ellis. 2010

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

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A Phrasal Expressions List (2012, methodology): “Table 1: Spoken AFL Top 10 (Simpson-Vlach and Ellis 2010) Speech Writing Raw frequency Frequency per million Raw frequency Frequency per million FTW 1 be able to 551 256 209 99 2.96 2 blah blah blah 62 29 0 0 2.92 3 this is the 732 340 127 60 2.77 4 you know what I mean 137 64 4 2 2.27 5 you can…”
What Do We (Think We) Know About Formulaic Language? An Evaluation of the Current State of Play (2012, background): “…2009), the potential positive and negative role of deliberate memorization (Ding, 2007; Qi & Ding, 2011; Wray & Fitzpatrick, 2008; Wray & Pegg, 2009), and rigorous approaches to identifying and teaching the most appropriate wordstrings (e.g., Erman, 2009; Liu, 2010; Simpson-Vlach & Ellis, 2010).”
Automatically Assessing Lexical Sophistication: Indices, Tools, Findings, and Application (2015, methodology): “Academic lists, such as the Academic Word List (AWL; Coxhead, 2000) and the Academic Formulas List (Simpson-Vlach & Ellis, 2010), have also been noted in the literature as important indicators of lexical sophistication for learners in academic contexts (see Coxhead, 2011, for an overview of the impa”
Beyond Vocabulary: Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Academic-Language Proficiency and Its Association With Reading Comprehension (2015, background): “…levels of difficulty was informed by databases of students’ word knowledge (LWV, Dale & O’Rourke, 1981), word frequency in school texts (Zeno et al., 1995) and academic lexical bundles derived from corpus analyses (Biber, Conrad & Cortes 2004; Cortes, 2004, 2006; Simpson-Vlach & Ellis, 2010).”
The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes (2016, methodology): “Likewise, the Academic Formulas List (AFL) (Simpson-Vlach and Ellis, 2010) extracted multi-word units (lexical bundles) from a corpus including MICASE, and a selection of research articles and academic texts from the Briish National Corpus (BNC).”
The idiom principle revisited (2014, methodology): “For Academic English, Simpson-Vlach and Ellis (2010) created a list of pedagogically relevant MWEs called the Academic Formulas List (AFL) by applying quantitative statistical measures to the qualitative judgement data.”
Core academic language skills: An expanded operational construct and a novel instrument to chart school-relevant language proficiency in preadolescent and adolescent learners (2014, background): “…to corpus linguistics studies, document the most prevalent causal and discourse makers in academic texts at school (Dale & O’Rourke, 1981; Zeno, Ivens, Millard, & Duvvuri, 1995) and beyond school, in academic texts exchanged by experts across disciplines (Hyland, 2005; Simpson-Vlach & Ellis, 2010).”
Lexical Sophistication as a Multidimensional Phenomenon: Relations to Second Language Lexical Proficiency, Development, and Writing Quality (2018, positive): “Academic language norms in TAALES are based on word-level academic lists (Coxhead, 2000) and phrase-level academic lists (Simpson−Vlach & Ellis, 2010).”
A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching1 (2012, background): “See Simpson-Vlach & Ellis (2010) and Martinez & Schmitt (in press) for two phrasal lists which aim to address this deficiency. cost/benefit analysis of vocabulary to decide whether or not any particular lexical item merits instruction or inclusion (see also Nation 2001b).”
Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects (2018, methodology): “The word association lists contain both MI and frequency information, as Simpson-Vlach and Ellis (2010) showed both inform judgements of teaching worth.”
Corpus Research Applications in Second Language Teaching (2011, methodology): “Simpson-Vlach and Ellis (2010) have taken Coxhead’s idea from word to phrase level and devised an Academic Formulas List (AFL), which consists of word combinations that occur significantly more often in academic than in nonacademic speech and writing.”