The Academic Spoken Word List

Autor/inn/en	Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen; Coxhead, Averil; Webb, Stuart
Titel	The Academic Spoken Word List
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 67 (2017) 4, S.959-997 (39 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Webb, Stuart)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/lang.12253
Schlagwörter	Speech Communication; Word Lists; Computational Linguistics; Second Language Learning; Language of Instruction; English (Second Language); Validity; Word Frequency; Vocabulary Skills; English for Academic Purposes; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wortliste; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Gültigkeit; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Aktiver Wortschatz; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	The linguistic features of academic spoken English are different from those of academic written English. Therefore, for this study, an Academic Spoken Word List (ASWL) was developed and validated to help second language (L2) learners enhance their comprehension of academic speech in English-medium universities. The ASWL contains 1,741 word families with high frequency and wide range in an academic spoken corpus totaling 13 million words. The list, which features vocabulary from 24 subjects across four equally sized disciplinary subcorpora, is graded into four levels according to Nation's British National Corpus and Corpus of Contemporary American English lists, and each level is divided into sublists of function words and lexical words. Depending on their vocabulary levels, language learners may reach 92-96% coverage of academic speech with the aid of the ASWL. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01