Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The veterinary medicine academic word list (VMAWL)

IF 3.2 1区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI:10.1016/j.esp.2023.12.002

Mustafa Özer , Erdem Akbaş

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The assembly of corpus-based discipline-specific word lists for pedagogical purposes has recently been on the rise (e.g., Arndt, 2022; Fraser, 2007; O'Flynn, 2019; Yang, 2015). In order to cater to the needs of learners in veterinary medicine (VM) and for field-specific academic literacy, this paper analyses a reiteration of the Veterinary Medicine Corpus (Özer and Akbaş, 2023; hereafter the VMC), assembling a specified list of academic words used in published research articles (RAs) in VM. So far, VM has remained largely unexplored with the exception of Durrant's (2009) limited coverage of VM texts. The analysis was conducted using LancsBox 6.0, prompted to yield a list of PoS-tagged lemmas (P-lemmas) sorted by frequency (Coxhead, 2000; Yang, 2015) and dispersion (Arndt, 2022). The most frequent 1,000 lemmas for each content word category were collated into a candidate list. We then manually eliminated proper nouns and GSL (West, 1953) words. The final list, the Veterinary Medicine Academic Word List (VMAWL), contains 835 PoS-tagged lemmas (P-lemmas), a reiteration of which was produced by adding the types in Bauer and Nation’s (1993) taxonomy at the second level to test coverage. The VMAWL was profiled and validated against the four parent categories independently on AntWordProfiler (Anthony, 2022a) with analysis showing the VMAWL comprises 13.75 % of the VMC and diverges greatly from generic word lists like the AWL, NGSL, new-GSL, and AVL. The list can be used to develop teaching materials for EAP or ESP academic writing courses.

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编制兽医学学术词表：兽医学学术词表（VMAWL）

为教学目的而编制基于语料库的特定学科词表的做法近来呈上升趋势（例如，Arndt, 2022; Fraser, 2007; O'Flynn, 2019; Yang, 2015）。为了满足兽医学（VM）学习者的需求和特定领域学术素养的需要，本文分析了兽医学语料库（Özer and Akbaş, 2023; 以下简称VMC）的再版，汇集了兽医学领域已发表研究文章（RAs）中使用的特定学术词汇表。迄今为止，除了 Durrant（2009 年）对 VM 文本的有限研究外，VM 在很大程度上仍未被研究。分析使用 LancsBox 6.0 进行，根据频率（Coxhead，2000 年；Yang，2015 年）和分散度（Arndt，2022 年）对 PoS 标记的词组（P-lemmas）进行排序。每个内容词类别中出现频率最高的 1,000 个词组被整理成一个候选列表。然后，我们手动剔除了专有名词和 GSL（West，1953 年）词。最终的列表，即兽医学学术词表（VMAWL），包含 835 个带有 PoS 标记的词组（P-lemmas），为了测试覆盖率，我们在第二层添加了 Bauer 和 Nation（1993 年）分类法中的类型。在 AntWordProfiler（Anthony，2022a）上对 VMAWL 进行了剖析，并与四个父分类进行了独立验证，分析表明 VMAWL 占 VMC 的 13.75%，与 AWL、NGSL、new-GSL 和 AVL 等通用词表有很大差异。该词表可用于为 EAP 或 ESP 学术写作课程编写教材。

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English for Specific Purposes LINGUISTICS-

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5.70

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62 days

期刊介绍： English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.