Beyond Frequency: Evaluating the Lexical Demands of Reading Materials with Open-Access Corpus Tools [Konferenzbericht] Paper presented at the EUROCALL 2020 Conference (28th, Online, Aug 20-21, 2020).

Autor/in	Martini, Juliane
Titel	Beyond Frequency: Evaluating the Lexical Demands of Reading Materials with Open-Access Corpus Tools [Konferenzbericht] Paper presented at the EUROCALL 2020 Conference (28th, Online, Aug 20-21, 2020).
Quelle	(2020), (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Martini, Juliane)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Computational Linguistics; Open Source Technology; Academic Language; Vocabulary Development; Reading Materials; Intensive Language Courses; English for Academic Purposes; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Veterinary Medicine; Health Personnel; Prior Learning; Word Frequency; Nouns; Language Proficiency; Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Study Abroad; Undergraduate Students; Portuguese; Native Language; Language Tests; Scores; Foreign Students; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Wortschatzarbeit; Intensivkurs; Sprachkurs; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Tiermedizin; Medizinisches Personal; Vorkenntnisse; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Portugiesischunterricht; Language test; Sprachtest; Kanada
Abstract	The aim of the present study was to evaluate the appropriateness of open-access reading materials for an intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course, and to provide teachers with a set of criteria to select online texts systematically and efficiently. The Corpus for Veterinarians (VetCorpus) was compiled and analyzed using Lextutor corpus tools. Taking into account students' vocabulary size, background knowledge, word frequency, proper nouns, compound words, and cognates, the VetCorpus was considered useful and appropriate for intermediate level students, but too difficult for elementary level students. Further lexical analysis showed that the VetCorpus also provides learners with opportunities to encounter technical and academic vocabulary. [For the complete volume, "CALL for Widening Participation: Short Papers from EUROCALL 2020 (28th, Online, August 20-21, 2020)," see ED610330.] (As Provided).
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