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2674
National Ranking
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Overview

Paul Nation is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on second language acquisition and learning, lexicography and language studies, and natural language processing techniques. Additional topics covered include second language learning and teaching, EFL/ESL teaching and learning, historical linguistics and language studies, and linguistics, language diversity, and identity.

Their work spans several fields of study, including arts and humanities, psychology, and computer science, with noted contributions in developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, artificial intelligence, literature and literary theory, and safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Paul Nation include:

  • Is it worth teaching vocabulary? (2020), TESOL Journal
  • THOUGHTS ON WORD FAMILIES (2021), Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Other notable papers within their research network include:

  • LIMITATIONS OF SIZE AND LEVELS TESTS OF WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE (2020), Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS ABOUT WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY TESTING (2021), Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Defining Standard Strategies for Quantum Benchmarks (2023), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Tim Stoeckel
  • Stuart McLean
  • Averil Coxhead
  • Jeffrey Stewart
  • Geoffrey G. Pinchbeck

Paul Nation has published books with several academic publishers. These include Learning Vocabulary in Another Language (2022) published by Cambridge University Press and Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size (2020) published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Their publications have appeared frequently in several venues, including:

  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • TESOL Journal
  • Language Teaching Research Quarterly
  • Languages
  • Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language--TESL-EJ

Best Publications

  • Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

    Paul Nation

  • Vocabulary size and use: lexical richness in L2 written production

    Batia Laufer;Paul Nation

  • UNKNOWN VOCABULARY DENSITY AND READING COMPREHENSION

    M Hu;Paul Nation

  • A vocabulary-size test of controlled productive ability

    Batia Laufer;Paul Nation

  • Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking

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  • The Four Strands

    Paul Nation

  • Teaching and Testing Vocabulary

    Paul Nation;Teresa Chung

  • How Vocabulary is Learned

    Paul Nation

  • The role of the first language in foreign language learning

    Paul Nation

  • How Large Can a Receptive Vocabulary Be

    Robin Goulden;Paul Nation;John Read

  • Technical Vocabulary in Specialised Texts.

    Teresa Mihwa Chung;Paul Nation

  • Graded Readers and Vocabulary

    Paul Nation;Karen Wang Ming-Tzu

  • Identifying technical vocabulary

    Teresa Mihwa Chung;Paul Nation

  • What vocabulary size is needed to read unsimplified texts for pleasure

    David Hirsh;Paul Nation

  • Word families

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  • Improving speaking fluency

    Paul Nation

  • SECOND LANGUAGE READING AND INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY LEARNING

    Rob Waring;Paul Nation

  • New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary. New Ways in TESOL Series: Innovative Classroom Techniques.

    Paul Nation

  • How Useful Is Eap Vocabulary for Esp? a Corpus Based Case Study

    Cucu Sutarsyah;Paul Nation;Graeme Kennedy

  • Beyond single words: the most frequent collocations in spoken English

    Dongkwang Shin;Paul Nation

  • Learning Vocabulary in Lexical Sets: Dangers and Guidelines

    Paul Nation

  • Vocabulary Size, Growth, and Use

    Paul Nation

Frequent Co-Authors

John Read
John Read University of East London
Batia Laufer
Batia Laufer University of Haifa
Norbert Schmitt
Norbert Schmitt University of Nottingham
Stuart Webb
Stuart Webb University of Western Ontario

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