Collocations of High Frequency Noun Keywords in Prescribed Science Textbooks

Autor/inn/en	Menon, Sujatha; Mukundan, Jayakaran
Titel	Collocations of High Frequency Noun Keywords in Prescribed Science Textbooks
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 5 (2012) 6, S.149-160 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Phrase Structure; Nouns; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Science Instruction; Textbooks; Content Analysis; Secondary School Students; Foreign Countries; Verbs; Form Classes (Languages); Syntax; Word Frequency; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Phrasenstruktur; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Diskursanalyse; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Inhaltsanalyse; Sekundarschüler; Ausland; Analytischer Sprachbau; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit
Abstract	This paper analyses the discourse of science through the study of collocational patterns of high frequency noun keywords in science textbooks used by upper secondary students in Malaysia. Research has shown that one of the areas of difficulty in science discourse concerns lexis, especially that of collocations. This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of the lexical collocations, specifically the noun/noun (NN), noun/adjective(AN) and verb/noun(VN) combinations, of high-frequency noun keywords in this science corpus. The study found that the NN and AN syntactic combinations were the more predominant combination type among the collocations of the noun keywords. Most of the collocations have been found to fall into the category between free and restricted combinations. In addition, the analysis have also uncovered clusters of overlapping collocations which show a tendency towards the free end of the restricted category of combinations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01