Dang, TNY (2018) A Hard Science Spoken Word List. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 169 (1). pp. 44-71. ISSN 0019-0829
Abstract
A Hard Science Spoken Word List (HSWL) was developed and validated to help second language learners of hard sciences better comprehend academic speech at English-medium universities. It consists of the 1,595 most frequent and wide ranging word families in a 6.5-million running word hard science spoken corpus which represents 12 subjects across two equally-sized sub-corpora. Its coverage in different discourse types indicates that the HSWL truly reflects the language in hard science academic speech. The comparison between the HSWL with Dang, Coxhead, and Webb’s (2017) Academic Spoken Word List shows that the HSWL focuses more on specialized vocabulary in hard science speech. Depending on their vocabulary levels, learners may achieve 93%–96% coverage of hard science academic speech with knowledge of the HSWL words.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018, John Bejamins . This is an author produced version of a paper published in ITL: International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2018 15:25 |
Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2018 10:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | John Benjamins |
Identification Number: | 10.1075/itl.00006.dan |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135480 |