基于语料库研究学术词汇在研究生学术写作中的运用

Overseas English Testing: Pedagogy and Research 国外英语考试教学与研究, 2019, 1(2), 47-56 Published Online August 2019 in Hans. https://www.360docs.net/doc/8411304685.html,/journal/oetpr https://https://www.360docs.net/doc/8411304685.html,/10.12677/oetpr.2019.12007

文章引用: 梁婕. 基于语料库研究学术词汇在研究生学术写作中的运用[J]. 国外英语考试教学与研究, 2019, 1(2): 47-56. DOI: 10.12677/oetpr.2019.12007

A Corpus-Based Study on the Use of Academic Words in Postgraduates’ Academic Writing

Jie Liang

School of Foreign Languages, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen Shanxi

Received: July 22nd , 2019; accepted: August 6th , 2019; published: August 13th , 2019

Abstract

Insufficient knowledge of academic vocabulary could be challenging for students who learn Eng-lish for academic or specific purposes (EAP or ESP), especially when reading and writing under professional contexts. In order to help students’ academic vocabulary learning, Coxhead estab-lished an Academic Word List in 2000, which is a valuable resource to enrich EAP students’ know-ledge of academic vocabulary. This study collected 58 assignments written by students from MA English Language Teaching and MSc Intercultural Communications for Business and Professions, University of Warwick, and compiled them into two corpora, MA corpus and MSc corpus. After evaluating the coverage of AWL words and identifying high-frequency academic words in the two corpora, the results show that AWL words have high coverage in both corpora and prospective students are recommended to apply these high-frequency AWL words and technical words profi-ciently. Keywords

Corpus, Academic Words, Academic Writing, Technical Words

基于语料库研究学术词汇在研究生学术写作中的运用

梁 婕

山西师范大学外国语学院，山西 临汾

收稿日期：2019年7月22日；录用日期：2019年8月6日；发布日期：2019年8月13日