Potential Vocabulary Growth in EMI Programs: The Cases of Accounting and Civil Engineering in Taiwanese EFL Context

Autor/in	Hsu, Wenhua
Titel	Potential Vocabulary Growth in EMI Programs: The Cases of Accounting and Civil Engineering in Taiwanese EFL Context
Quelle	In: Journal of English Teaching, 7 (2021) 3, S.300-314 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2087-9628
Schlagwörter	Vocabulary Development; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Language of Instruction; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Word Frequency; Incidental Learning; Accounting; Engineering Education; Textbooks; Computational Linguistics; Civil Engineering; Benchmarking; Majors (Students); Undergraduate Students; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wortschatzarbeit; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Inzidentelles Lernen; Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Ingenieurausbildung; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik
Abstract	English-medium instruction (EMI) has become a nationwide trend in Taiwan's higher education institutions. Behind this rapid growth is the widespread belief that EMI provides English immersion, which facilitates incidental learning of the target language. However, not all EMI programs in EFL contexts provide the same immersion as those in the Anglosphere. English-medium university textbooks were therefore targeted as a research focus in that they offer non-English subject majors a sustainable channel for exposure to English in the EFL context. The researcher compiled two 4- million-token accounting and civil engineering textbook corpora and measured the vocabulary levels and amounts along the BNC/COCA word-frequency scale. Results show that accounting textbooks reached the 5th 1000-word-family level at 98% text coverage while civil engineering textbooks stretched to the 9th-10th 1000 level. Twelve repetitions were used as a benchmark for incidental learning. Only 1,479 word families beyond the first 3000 occurred 12+ times in the accounting corpus versus 3,397 word families in the civil engineering corpus. For EMI practitioners who are concerned with their students' vocabulary development, the results may serve as a reference for future investigations into other disciplines. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of English Teaching. Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP) UKI, Jalan Mayjen Sutoyo No. 2, Cawang, Jakarta, Timur, 13630, Indonesia. Tel:+62-21-8092425 ext. 310, 315; e-mail: jet@uki.ac.id; Web site: http://ejournal.uki.ac.id/index.php/jet
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01