High-frequency words in academic spoken English: corpora and learners
High-frequency words in academic spoken English: corpora and learners
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学术英语口语中的高频词：语料库和学习者
DOI：
10.1093/elt/ccz057
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Thi Ngoc Yen Dang
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作者：
Thi Ngoc Yen Dang
EAP教师和课程设计者通常认为，学习者在进入课程之前已经掌握了普通语言中最常用的单词。因此，他们把重点放在高频词汇之外但在学术书面英语中常见的单词上。鉴于EAP学习者的语言水平参差不齐，这一固定的词汇基准是值得怀疑的。对学术英语口语的理解对学生的学业成功当然很重要。因此，只关注学术书面词汇来理解学术英语口语可能是有问题的。没有人试图在一项单独的研究中解决这些问题。本研究比较了高频词在学术英语口语和书面语中的出现情况。它还测试了EAP学习者对这些单词的接受性知识。结果表明，高频词在学术英语口语中起着非常重要的作用，但大多数受试者未能很好地掌握这些词汇。最后，本文提出了提高EAP学习者高频词知识的建议。
EAP teachers and course designers usually assume that learners have already mastered the most frequent words of general language before entering their courses. Therefore, they focus on words that are outside high-frequency vocabulary but common in academic written English. This fixed vocabulary benchmark is questionable given EAP learners’ varied language proficiency. A good understanding of academic spoken English is certainly important for students’ academic success. Concentrating only on academic written vocabulary for comprehending academic spoken English may therefore be problematic. No attempts have been made to address these issues in a single study. This study compared the occurrences of high-frequency words in academic spoken and written English. It also tested EAP learners’ receptive knowledge of these words. Results showed that high-frequency words play a very important part in academic spoken English, but most participants failed to master them receptively. Suggestions for enhancing EAP learners’ knowledge of high-frequency words are provided.