Selecting ESP reading materials. Vocabulary suitability of science magazines for English for Science teaching and learning

IF 0.1 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI:10.24053/aaa-2022-0005

Milica Vuković-Stamatović, Vesna Bratić

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Bearing in mind that teachers often find themselves in a position where they have to produce their own teaching materials for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes, vocabulary profiling studies of certain genres may be of help in such situations. English for Science is an ESP field commonly taught around the world; however, despite this, the teaching resources for it are not as plentiful as the ESP teachers would like them to be. With this in mind, in this paper we study the vocabulary profile of science magazines, a genre that is generally written for non-expert audience and includes reports, news and opinions about science. We determine how complex the vocabulary of this genre is, using a corpus of approximately 230,000 running words, and define how many words are needed to reach the minimum reading comprehension level. We also determine how much high-frequency general, academic and scientific vocabulary this genre contains. Based on this, we draw conclusions on the target ESP audience these texts would be most useful for.

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选择ESP阅读材料。科学杂志词汇对科学英语教学的适宜性

请记住，教师经常发现自己不得不为特殊用途英语(ESP)课程编写自己的教材，在这种情况下，某些类型的词汇分析研究可能会有所帮助。科学英语是世界各地普遍教授的ESP领域;然而，尽管如此，它的教学资源并不像ESP教师所希望的那样丰富。考虑到这一点，在本文中，我们研究了科学杂志的词汇概况，这是一种通常为非专业读者写的类型，包括关于科学的报道、新闻和观点。我们使用大约23万个运行单词的语料库来确定这一类型的词汇的复杂程度，并定义达到最低阅读理解水平需要多少单词。我们还确定了这种类型包含多少高频通用、学术和科学词汇。在此基础上，我们得出了这些文本对目标ESP受众最有用的结论。

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期刊介绍： The journal’s main purpose is to demonstrate and celebrate the diversity of English and American Studies, providing a medium for its different branches, especially in the Central European academic context (but not restricted to it). Topics thus range from literary studies to linguistics, from theoretical to applied, from text-focused to culturally-oriented, from novel to film, from textual to contextual, from England to Australia and from the USA to South Africa.