抄録
There seems to be no reliable standard in the teaching of productive vocabulary in communication-oriented English teaching in Japan nowadays. Many of word lists have put basis on frequency, which has been getting more and more precise along the developments of computer corpora, but many researchers have pointed at the deficiency of frequency-based word lists; frequent words are often low in information content. The author of this paper thinks Basic English word list might be useful as one of communication strategies in English classes because of its small size of vocabulary, which means availability to our mind, and its power of coverage, when we study 'Things' and 'Qualities' of the word list. He suggests that they are much more useful than its phrasal verbs and composite predicates in English Classes.
