The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses

As researchers and practitioners are becoming more aware of the importance of multi-word items in English, there is little doubt that phrasal verbs deserve teaching attention in the classroom. However, there are thousands of phrasal verbs in English, and so the question for practitioners is which ph...

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Main Authors: Garnier, Mélodie, Schmitt, Norbert
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description As researchers and practitioners are becoming more aware of the importance of multi-word items in English, there is little doubt that phrasal verbs deserve teaching attention in the classroom. However, there are thousands of phrasal verbs in English, and so the question for practitioners is which phrasal verbs to focus attention upon. Phrasal verb dictionaries typically try to be comprehensive, and this results in a very large number of phrasal verbs being listed, which does not help practitioners in selecting the most important ones to teach or test. There are phrasal verb lists available (Gardner and Davies, 2007; Liu, 2011), but these have a serious pedagogical shortcoming in that they do not account for polysemy. Research indicates that phrasal verbs are highly polysemous, having on average 5.6 meaning senses, although many of these are infrequent and peripheral. Thus practitioners also need guidance about which meaning senses are the most useful to address in instruction or tests. In response to this need, the PHrasal VErb Pedagogical List (PHaVE List) was developed. It lists the 150 most frequent phrasal verbs, and provides information on their key meaning senses, which cover 75%+ of the occurrences in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The PHaVE List gives the percentage of occurrence for each of these key meaning senses, along with definitions and example sentences written to be accessible for second language learners, in the style of the General Service List (West, 1953). A users’ manual is also provided, indicating how to use the list appropriately.
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spelling nottingham-322942020-05-04T17:18:01Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32294/ The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses Garnier, Mélodie Schmitt, Norbert As researchers and practitioners are becoming more aware of the importance of multi-word items in English, there is little doubt that phrasal verbs deserve teaching attention in the classroom. However, there are thousands of phrasal verbs in English, and so the question for practitioners is which phrasal verbs to focus attention upon. Phrasal verb dictionaries typically try to be comprehensive, and this results in a very large number of phrasal verbs being listed, which does not help practitioners in selecting the most important ones to teach or test. There are phrasal verb lists available (Gardner and Davies, 2007; Liu, 2011), but these have a serious pedagogical shortcoming in that they do not account for polysemy. Research indicates that phrasal verbs are highly polysemous, having on average 5.6 meaning senses, although many of these are infrequent and peripheral. Thus practitioners also need guidance about which meaning senses are the most useful to address in instruction or tests. In response to this need, the PHrasal VErb Pedagogical List (PHaVE List) was developed. It lists the 150 most frequent phrasal verbs, and provides information on their key meaning senses, which cover 75%+ of the occurrences in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The PHaVE List gives the percentage of occurrence for each of these key meaning senses, along with definitions and example sentences written to be accessible for second language learners, in the style of the General Service List (West, 1953). A users’ manual is also provided, indicating how to use the list appropriately. SAGE 2015-11-01 Article PeerReviewed Garnier, Mélodie and Schmitt, Norbert (2015) The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses. Language Teaching Research, 19 (6). pp. 645-666. ISSN 1477-0954 Corpus Analysis Phrasal Verbs Pedagogical Wordlists Vocabulary Learning http://ltr.sagepub.com/content/19/6/645 doi:10.1177/1362168814559798 doi:10.1177/1362168814559798
spellingShingle Corpus Analysis
Phrasal Verbs
Pedagogical Wordlists
Vocabulary Learning
Garnier, Mélodie
Schmitt, Norbert
The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses
title The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses
title_full The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses
title_fullStr The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses
title_full_unstemmed The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses
title_short The PHaVE List: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses
title_sort phave list: a pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses
topic Corpus Analysis
Phrasal Verbs
Pedagogical Wordlists
Vocabulary Learning
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