English Vocabulary for Equine Veterans: How Different from GSL and AWL Words مقالة

كاتب مسؤول: Safari، Mahmood ؛

English for Academic Purposes Summer 2019, Volume 8 - Number 2 ، ج (Ministry of Science/ISC (‎15 صفحة - من 51 إلی 65 )

الکلمات المفتاحية: Frequency Coverage academic word list general service list Equine Veterinary

خلاصة:

ESP students are usually suggested to master general and academic word lists such as Wests’ (1953) General Service List (GSL) and Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) to be able to read their academic texts. However, it seems that university students may not need to learn all the words in the two lists as some words in the lists are of less frequency in academic texts. Moreover, there are some nontechnical words which occur frequently in academic disciples but are absent in the two lists. The present study attempted to identify words which frequently occur in equine veterinary academic texts. To that end, a corpus of over 3.6 million running words, containing equine veterinary journal articles, was developed and analyzed using some text analysis software (TextStat and TextAnalys). As Coxhead the frequency of 100 was set as the criterion for word selection. The results revealed that 1091 GSL word families and 116 AWL word families were of less frequency (i.e., occurred less than 100 times) in the EVC (Equine Veterinary Corpus) and there were 214 nontechnical word families which occurred frequently in the EVC but were absent in the GSL and AWL. The high frequency GSL and AWL words alongside the newly identified words constituted the Equine Veterinary Word List (EVWL), which covered the EVC 2.5% more than the combination of GSL and AWL although it consisted of 993 fewer words. The findings can benefit equine veterans, veterinary students, EAP teachers, materials developers and researchers.

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More recently, some studies have tried to develop vocabulary lists for specific academic disciplines (Chung, 2009; Lei & Liu, 2016; Martinez, Beck & Panza, 2009; Moini & Islamizadeh, 2016; Mudraya, 2006; Munoz, 2015; Ward, 2009; Wang, Liang, & Ge, 2008). , 2009; Munoz, 2015), Chemistry (Valipouri & Nassaji, 2013), Social Sciences (Kwary & Artha, 2017) and Nursing (Yang 2015), there have been almost no studies, to the best knowledge of the author, investigating words frequently used in some academic disciplines such as veterinary field and subfields. g. , Cowan, 1974; Friel, 1978; Inman, 1978; Kirkham, 1978; Wingard, 1981). The present study attempted to work out high frequency words in equine veterinary academic texts and develop a word list for equine veterinary sub-discipline. Moreover, the corpus was explored to find the words which are of high frequency in equine veterinary texts but are absent in the GSL and AWL lists. The analysis of the corpus revealed that 909 GSL word families and 454 AWL word families met the criterion and occurred more than 100 times in the EVC and were considered as high frequency general and academic words in equine veterinary. Table 2: High and Low Frequency GSL and AWL Words in the Corpus {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} The second step was to work out words which are highly frequent in equine veterinary texts but absent in GSL and AWL lists. Thus the answer to the second research question is: 214 word families are highly frequent in equine veterinary texts but absent in the GSL and AWL.

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