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The lexical profile of forestry academic texts: What does it take to understand a specialized discipline? [PDF]
PLoS ONEVocabulary is essential for comprehension, especially in specialized disciplines. However, the research on the lexical features of forestry remains underexplored.
Guihua Luo, Jiamiao Song, Jingjing Wu
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A Corpus-Based Lexical Coverage of Coursebooks in Nigeria: A Case Study
Register JournalSince vocabulary is one of the most important components of reading comprehension, the relationship between the two has been studied in great detail. The significance of this relationship lies in the fact that learners' vocabulary size and the degree of ...
Hamisu Hamisu Haruna +2 more
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Profiling lexical coverage in EMI academic seminars: a corpus-based study
IbéricaSince the implementation of the Bologna Process, Higher Education Institutions have increasingly offered English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) programmes to promote “internationalisation at home” (Beelen & Jones, 2018).
Irene Castellano-Risco
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How much vocabulary is needed for comprehension of video lectures in MOOCs: A corpus-based study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Over the past years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as new competitive advantages in the digital economy of higher education globally. Accordingly, an increasing number of individuals are attracted to these new learning environments for
Ismail Xodabande +2 more
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021 Four papers by Brandon Kramer, Tohru Matsuo, Aaron Sponseller, Young Ae Kim, Suzuka Nishiyama, and Stuart McLean, Stuart Benson and Naheen Madarbakus-Ring, Michael McGuire and Jennifer Larson-Hall, and Atsushi Mizumoto, Geoffrey Pinchbeck, and Stuart ...
David Beglar
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TEFLIN Journal, 2021 In this commentary, we begin with the discussion on a brief history of academic wordlists. Adopting a comparative perspective, then, the merits and demerits of the Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000) and its competing counterpart the Academic ...
Razieh Gholaminejad +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The article presents a methodological update on the lexical profile of informal spoken English with the emphasis on movies, television programs, and soap operas. The study analyzed Mark Davies’s mega-corpora with data containing approximately 625 million
Hung Tan Ha
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Some proponents of higher education English as a medium of instruction (EMI) have suggested listening to English lectures provides students the opportunity to incidentally acquire unknown words. A case study was designed to examine this assumption. First,
Barry Lee Reynolds +3 more
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Lexical Profile of Newspapers Revisited: A Corpus-Based Analysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The present study analyzed the vocabulary profile of the News on the Web (NOW) corpus, which contained 12 billion words from online newspapers and magazines in 20 countries to determine the vocabulary knowledge needed to reasonably understand online ...
Hung Tan Ha
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Semantic extraction with wide-coverage lexical resources [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - NAACL '03, 2003 We report on results of combining graphical modeling techniques with Information Extraction resources (Pattern Dictionary and Lexicon) for both frame and semantic role assignment. Our approach demonstrates the use of two human built knowledge bases (WordNet and FrameNet) for the task of semantic extraction.
Behrang Mohit, Srini Narayanan
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