Academic Vocabulary in Agriculture Research Articles: A Corpus-Based Study

Autor/inn/en	Martinez, Iliana A.; Beck, Silvia C.; Panza, Carolina B.
Titel	Academic Vocabulary in Agriculture Research Articles: A Corpus-Based Study
Quelle	In: English for Specific Purposes, 28 (2009) 3, S.183-198 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0889-4906
DOI	10.1016/j.esp.2009.04.003
Schlagwörter	English for Academic Purposes; Vocabulary; Computational Linguistics; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Word Lists; Agriculture; Research Reports; Periodicals; Intellectual Disciplines; Educational Resources; Academic Discourse; Agricultural Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wortschatz; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Wortliste; Landwirtschaft; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Geisteswissenschaften; Bildungsmittel; Discourse; Diskurs; Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Ausbildung
Abstract	Recent critical views on the usefulness of a general academic vocabulary have heightened the relevance of developing discipline specific academic wordlists to meet the needs of non-native English writers who must read and publish articles in English. Using Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List, we set out to identify the academic words in a corpus of research articles of agriculture. A quantitative analysis provided a highly restricted list of words from the Academic Word List, 92 families. Qualitative observations revealed not only that some words had specific meanings and behaviours related to the genre and also probably to the field, but also that some words from the Academic Word List had technical meaning in our corpus. Furthermore, we observed that many words of general use had academic meaning in our corpus, and should probably be regarded as academic vocabulary. These findings suggest the need to produce field-specific academic word lists, which, in our view, should incorporate all frequent academic lexical items necessary for the expression of the rhetoric of the specific research area. (Contains 9 tables.) (As Provided).
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