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{{Short description|List of ca. 2800 words in English}}
The '''New General Service List''' ('''NGSL''') is a list of approximately 2,800 core vocabulary words published by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips in March 2013.
The '''New General Service List''' ('''NGSL''') is a list of 2,809 words ([[Lemma (morphology)|lemmas]])<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-05-29|title=New General Service List: Core Vocabulary For EFL Students & Teachers|url=https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2018/05/29/general-service-list/|access-date=2021-10-18|website=World of Better Learning {{!}} Cambridge University Press|language=en-US}}</ref> claimed to be a list of words that [[second language learners]] of the [[English language]] are most likely to meet in their daily lives. It was published by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips in March 2013 and updated in 2016 and 2023.


The words in the NGSL represent the most important high frequency words of the English language for second language learners of English and is a major update of Michael West's 1953 [[General Service List|GSL]]. Although there are more than 600,000 word families in the English language,<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford English Dictionary|url=http://www.oed.com}}</ref> the 2,800 words in the NGSL give more than 90% coverage for learners when trying to read most general texts of English.<ref>{{cite web|title=New General Service List|url=http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org}}</ref>
The words in the NGSL represent the most important high frequency words of the English language for second language learners of English and is a major update of Michael West's 1953 [[General Service List|GSL]].<ref name=ngslp>{{cite web|url=https://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/|title=New General Service List Project|access-date=10 May 2022}}</ref>


The main goals of the NGSL project were to (1) modernize and greatly increase the size of the corpus used, and to (2) create a list of words that provided a higher degree of coverage with fewer words than the original GSL. The 273-million-word subsection of the more than two-billion-word Cambridge English Corpus<ref>{{cite web|title=Cambridge English Corpus|url=http://www.cambridge.org/gb/elt/catalogue/subject/custom/item3646595/Cambridge-English-Corpus-Written-English/?site_locale=en_GB}}</ref> is about 100 times larger than the 2.5 million word corpus developed in the 1930s for the original GSL, and the approximately 2,800 words in the NGSL gives about 6% more coverage than the GSL (90% vs 84%) when both lists are [[Lemmatization|lemmatized]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Browne|first=Charles|title=The New General Service List: Celebrating 60 years of Vocabulary Learning|journal=The Language Teacher|date=July 2013|volume=37|series=4|pages=13–16}}</ref>
Although there are more than 600,000 words in the English language,<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxford English Dictionary|url=http://www.oed.com}}</ref> the 2,800 words in the NGSL give more than 92% coverage for learners when trying to read most general texts of English.<ref name=ngslp />
The main goals of the NGSL project were to (1) modernize and greatly increase the size of the corpus used by, and to (2) create a list of words that provided a higher degree of coverage with fewer words than, the original GSL.<ref name=ngslp />
The 273-million-word subsection of the more than two-billion-word [[Cambridge English Corpus]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Cambridge English Corpus|url=http://www.cambridge.org/gb/elt/catalogue/subject/custom/item3646595/Cambridge-English-Corpus-Written-English/?site_locale=en_GB}}</ref> is about 100 times larger than the 2.5 million word corpus developed in the 1930s for the original GSL, and the approximately 2,800 words in the NGSL gives about 6% more coverage than the GSL (90% vs 84%) when both lists are [[Lemmatization|lemmatized]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Browne|first=Charles|date=July 2013|title=The New General Service List: Celebrating 60 years of Vocabulary Learning|url=https://jalt-publications.org/files/pdf-article/37.4tlt_featureds.pdf|journal=The Language Teacher|series=4|volume=37|pages=13–16}}</ref>


Copies of the NGSL in various forms (by headword, lemmatized, with definitions), published articles about the list and links to analytical tools and materials that use the NGSL are all available from the NGSL website.
Copies of the NGSL in various forms (by headword, lemmatized, with definitions), published articles about the list and links to analytical tools and materials that use the NGSL are all available from the NGSL website.
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==See also==
==See also==
* [[General Service List]] (GSL) a list of roughly 2000 words published by [[Michael Philip West|Michael West]]
* [[General Service List]] (GSL) a list of roughly 2000 words published by [[Michael Philip West|Michael West]]
* [[Swadesh list]]
* [[Français fondamental]]
*[[:it:Vocabolario corrente#Vocabolario di base|Vocabolario di base]]


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
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== Further reading ==

* {{Cite journal|last=Brezina|first=Vaclav|last2=Gablasova|first2=Dana|date=February 2015|title=Is There a Core General Vocabulary? Introducing the ''New General Service List''|url=https://academic.oup.com/applij/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/applin/amt018|journal=Applied Linguistics|language=en|volume=36|issue=1|pages=1–22|doi=10.1093/applin/amt018|issn=1477-450X}}


==External links==
==External links==
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[[Category:Lists of English words]]
[[Category:Lists of English words]]
[[Category:Word lists]]

Latest revision as of 08:04, 25 November 2023

The New General Service List (NGSL) is a list of 2,809 words (lemmas)[1] claimed to be a list of words that second language learners of the English language are most likely to meet in their daily lives. It was published by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips in March 2013 and updated in 2016 and 2023.

The words in the NGSL represent the most important high frequency words of the English language for second language learners of English and is a major update of Michael West's 1953 GSL.[2]

Although there are more than 600,000 words in the English language,[3] the 2,800 words in the NGSL give more than 92% coverage for learners when trying to read most general texts of English.[2]

The main goals of the NGSL project were to (1) modernize and greatly increase the size of the corpus used by, and to (2) create a list of words that provided a higher degree of coverage with fewer words than, the original GSL.[2]

The 273-million-word subsection of the more than two-billion-word Cambridge English Corpus[4] is about 100 times larger than the 2.5 million word corpus developed in the 1930s for the original GSL, and the approximately 2,800 words in the NGSL gives about 6% more coverage than the GSL (90% vs 84%) when both lists are lemmatized.[5]

Copies of the NGSL in various forms (by headword, lemmatized, with definitions), published articles about the list and links to analytical tools and materials that use the NGSL are all available from the NGSL website.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "New General Service List: Core Vocabulary For EFL Students & Teachers". World of Better Learning | Cambridge University Press. 2018-05-29. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  2. ^ a b c "New General Service List Project". Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Oxford English Dictionary".
  4. ^ "Cambridge English Corpus".
  5. ^ Browne, Charles (July 2013). "The New General Service List: Celebrating 60 years of Vocabulary Learning" (PDF). The Language Teacher. 4. 37: 13–16.

Further reading

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