应用语言学研究论文中的学术词汇:基于语料库的研究

IF 1 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Journal of Language and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI:10.17323/jle.2022.13420
Ismail Xodabande, Shima Torabzadeh, M. Ghafouri, Azadeh Emadi
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背景学术词汇通常被认为是学术话语中更频繁用于描述抽象思想和过程的词汇,对英语母语和非母语使用者来说都是一个主要的学习负担。基于语料库的技术和工具的最新发展使分析大量文本以分析词汇项目成为可能,越来越多的研究在不同学科发表的研究文章中调查了这些词汇。意图尽管在学术词表开发方面取得了重大进展,但关注新开发的词表在学术文本中的贡献的研究在很大程度上仍然有限。因此,大多数研究都使用过时的通用和学术词汇表作为研究的起点。方法。本研究调查了大量应用语言学研究文章(2000篇RA,1550万字,20种期刊),以根据新学术词汇表(NAWL)识别常用学术词汇。在分析数据时,使用了预定义的标准,该研究使用flemma来计数和定义单词。后果研究结果表明,在NAWL的960个学术单词中,有310个在语料库中频繁使用,覆盖率为4.19%。这一覆盖率与之前的研究有很大不同,之前的研究使用学术词汇表(AWL)调查了类似的语料库,并报告了学术词汇的覆盖率约为10%以上。由于本研究中用于分析语料库的基本列表与先前研究中使用的基本列表不同,因此这种差异主要是由于在操作一般服务和学术词汇方面的改进而产生的。含义。鉴于这些发现以及最近对词汇研究中更多复制研究的呼吁,本研究对学术词汇的研究和教学有一定的启示。此外,为了促进应用语言学中的学术词汇学习,本研究列出了一份常用的NAWL项目列表,根据它们在语料库中的频率分为六个波段。
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Academic Vocabulary in Applied Linguistics Research Articles: A Corpus-based Study
Background. Generally operationalized as the words used more frequently in academic discourse for describing abstract ideas and processes, academic vocabulary poses a major learning burden for native and non-native speakers of English. Recent developments in corpus-based technologies and tools have made it possible to analyze large bodies of texts for profiling vocabulary items, and a growing number of studies investigated such vocabulary in research articles published in different disciplines. Purpose. Despite significant progress in academic word list development, research focusing on the contribution of the newly developed word lists in academic texts remained largely limited. Accordingly, the majority of studies used outdated lists for general and academic vocabulary as the starting points in their studies. Methods. The current study investigated a large corpus of applied linguistics research articles (2000 RAs, 15.5 million words, 20 journals) to identify frequently used academic words based on New Academic Word List (NAWL). In analyzing the data, predefined criteria were used and the study used flemma for counting and defining words. Results. The findings indicated that 310 out of 960 academic words in NAWL were used frequently in the corpus and provided 4.19% coverage. This coverage differs considerably with the previous studies that investigated similar corpora using the Academic Word List (AWL) and reported around and more than 10% coverage for academic vocabulary. Since the base lists used for profiling the corpus in this study were different from those employed by the previous studies, such differences mainly arise as a result of improvements in operationalizing general service and academic vocabulary. Implications. In light of these findings and recent calls for more replication research in vocabulary studies, the study draws some implications for researching and teaching academic vocabulary. Additionally, in order to facilitate academic vocabulary learning in applied linguistics, the study presents a list of frequently used NAWL items divided into six bands based on their frequency in the corpus.
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Journal of Language and Education
Journal of Language and Education Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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