Data from: Russian’s Most Frequent Words and Vocabulary Instruction
Published In
The Russian Language Journal
Document Type
Dataset
Publication Date
10-2020
Subjects
Russian language -- Study and teaching (Higher), Russian language -- Word formation, Russian language -- Vocabulary
Abstract
This study explores the nature of Russian’s 5000 most frequent words (Liashevskaia and Sharov 2009), since a vocabulary of this size has been associated with learners being able to read at the ACTFL Superior level of proficiency (Hacking and Tschirner 2017). The study analyzes these words from the perspective of learning burden (Sánchez-Gutiérrrez, Miguel, and Olsen 2019) and Russian word formation. To conduct this analysis the researcher created a database of the most frequent 5000 words, which is offered as a digital tool for other researchers and instructors of Russian.
Key findings from the study are: 21% of the first 5000 words are international words; 80% of the words can be clustered into 758 word families; 87 of those word families have 11 or more members.
After analyzing Russian’s most frequent words, the author suggests possible activities for different levels of instruction that can increase students’ abilities to use word formation information in comprehending new words.
Rights
This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal
DOI
10.15760/wll-data.01
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34010
Recommended Citation
Comer, William J., "Data from: Russian’s Most Frequent Words and Vocabulary Instruction" (2020). [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.15760/wll-data.01
Annotated database.odb
comer_5000_annotated_csv.csv (593 kB)
Annotated_csv.csv
readme.txt (2 kB)
readme.txt
Description
The data supports the article, “Russian’s Most Frequent Words and Implications for Vocabulary Instruction.” Russian Language Journal 71.1(2021): 115-138.
Represents an annotation of the most frequent five thousand words in Russian, based on Liashevskaia and Sharov's 2009, publication Chastotnyj slovar′ sovremennogo russkogo iazyka (na materialakh Natsional′nogokorpusa russkogo iazyka).
The file: comer_5000_annotated_database.odb is a database programmed in LibreOffice, Version: 6.2.8.2. Includes data views and queries.
The file: comer_5000_annotated_csv.csv presents the data in a single CSV file.
The file: readme.txt explains the fields in the database.