Michael Philip West
Encyclopedia
Dr. Michael Philip West was an English language teacher and researcher who worked extensively in India in the mid 1900s. He produced the reading scheme The New Modern Reader
and A General Service List of English Words
(Longman, Harlow, Essex, 1953).
The New Modern Reader
-The New Method English Dictionary:Micheal West's the new method English dictionary is monolingual dictionary of Longman , a new edition by Micheal West, M.A., D. Phil and James Gareth Endicott, M.A. and revised by Ian Elliott and Lioyd Humberstone.This new edition retains the essential features of...
and A General Service List of English Words
A General Service List of English Words
The General Service List is a list of roughly 2000 words published by Michael West in 1953. The words were selected to represent the most frequent words of English and were taken from a corpus of written English. The target audience was English language learners and ESL teachers...
(Longman, Harlow, Essex, 1953).