چکیده:
This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used
academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the
distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s Academic Word
List (AWL) and West’s General Service List (GSL) to examine their
coverage within the linguistics corpus. To this end, a corpus of 700
linguistics research articles (LRAC), consisting of approximately 4
million words from four main linguistics sub-disciplines (phonology,
morphology, semantics and syntax) was compiled and analyzed based
on two criteria; frequency and range. Based on the analysis, a list
consisting of 1263 academic word families was produced to provide a
useful linguistics academic word list for native and non- native English
speakers. Results showed that AWL words account for 10.18 % of the
entire LRAC, and GSL words account for 72.48% of the entire LRAC.
The findings suggested that of 570 word families in Coxhead’s AWL,
381 (66.84%) word families correspond with the word selections
criteria which provide 29.88% of the word families in Linguistics
Academic Word List (LAWL). Furthermore, 224 word families that
were frequently used in linguistic research article corpus (LRAC) were
not listed in GSL and AWL. They accounted for 18.51% of the word
families in LAWL with coverage of 5.07% over LRAC, and compared
with the 2000 GSL, 658 word families were identified. The results have
pedagogical implications for linguistics practitioners and EAP
practitioners, researchers, and material designers.
خلاصه ماشینی:
com Abstract This corpus-based study aimed at exploring the most frequently-used academic words in linguistics and compare the wordlist with the distribution of high frequency words in Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) and West’s General Service List (GSL) to examine their coverage within the linguistics corpus.
To this end, a corpus of 700 linguistics research articles (LRAC), consisting of approximately 4 million words from four main linguistics sub-disciplines (phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax) was compiled and analyzed based on two criteria; frequency and range.
Furthermore, 224 word families thatwere frequently used in linguistic research article corpus (LRAC) werenot listed in GSL and AWL.
Keywords: academic word list, general service list, research articles,English for academic purposes, corpus linguistics, academic writing Received: 30/07/2016 Accepted: 20/12/2016 Corresponding author One predominant language problem of non-native and native learners in academic reading and writing is learning vocabulary (Shaw, 1991), especially if the goal is to achieve a high literacy level in the second language (Cobb & Horst, 2004).
2. Does the new word list -as compared with AWL and GSL- have a better coverage of linguistics research articles corpus (LARC)?
Data Analysis and Processing This study aimed at developing a list of linguistics English academic words that were most frequently used in linguistics RAs. To this aim the corpus was quantitatively analyzed, using RANGE program.
Discussion and Conclusions In this study, a 4 million words corpus of linguistics research articles (LRAC) was compiled and compared with Coxhead’s (2000) AWL and West’s (1953) GSL word list.