The New General Service List - Spoken

How do you cite or refer to the NGSL-S?

Though the proper style sheet will vary from academic field to academic field, most people working in the areas of applied linguistics and TESOL use APA format. Borrowing from their rules for citing websites, we recommend the following:

Browne, C., Culligan, B. (2013). The New General Service List - Spoken. Retrieved from http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org.

NGSL-Spoken 1.2

In response to several requests for a list of high frequency spoken English words, the three spoken subsections of the NGSL corpus (see table below) were analyzed and in late 2013, Browne and Culligan published the NGSL-S (Browne & Culligan, 2013). The 1.0 version contained 822 words which provided 89% coverage for spoken English. In 2016, the 1.1 version of the list was published, with slightly better coverage (718 words to reach 90%). In October 2017 the 1.2 version of the NGSL was released. This list is 721 words and provides up to 90% coverage for unscripted spoken English

NGSL-S 1.2 Downloadable Word Lists:

  1. NGSL-S 1.2 alphabetized

  2. NGSL-S 1.2 alphabetized and lemmatized for teaching

  3. NGSL-S 1.2 alphabetized and lemmatized for research

  4. NGSL-S 1.2 list with basic statistics (includes frequency rankings)

  5. NGSL-S 1.2 list with definitions in easy English

NGSL-S 1.2 Teaching, Learning & Content Development Tools:

  1. NGSL-S 1.2 on NGSL Profiler (text analysis, text simplification & AI text generation tools)

  2. NGSL-S 1.2 video concordance utilizing Youglish (soon!)

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