A Corpus-Based Study of the Vocabulary Profile of High School English Textbooks in China

Autor/inn/en	Yu, Min; Renandya, Willy A.
Titel	A Corpus-Based Study of the Vocabulary Profile of High School English Textbooks in China
Quelle	In: LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 14 (2021) 1, S.28-49 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2630-0672
Schlagwörter	Textbook Content; Textbooks; Secondary School Curriculum; National Curriculum; High Schools; Academic Standards; Vocabulary Development; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Word Lists; Word Frequency; Repetition; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrbuchtext; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; High school; Oberschule; Wortschatzarbeit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Wortliste; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Wiederholung; Ausland
Abstract	The study investigates the vocabulary profile of a set of English textbooks "New Senior English for China," which is widely used for senior secondary education in China. It examines how the words required by the 2017 National English Curriculum Standard for General Senior Secondary Education in China are covered, repeated and distributed in the textbooks. The results show that the textbooks cover only about 80% of the lemmas required by the 2017 English Curriculum Standard. Among the lemmas covered in the textbooks, half of them are repeated less than five times in the textbooks. Most of the lemmas which recur more than five times in the textbooks have dispersion values above 0.5. Lemmas with dispersion values below 0.1 are mainly composed of theme-based words. Although the study indicates that some words are distributed favorably, the textbooks fail to provide sufficient coverage and repetition of the words required by the 2017 English Curriculum Standard. Therefore, extra exposure and repetition of these words are required for optimal learning. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01