Building a Corpus-Based Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Model in University Reading Support Courses

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of College Reading and Learning Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/10790195.2020.1725689

Timothy S. Nelson, Mohammed Albakry

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The availability of corpora has greatly strengthened the possibilities of identifying high-frequency lexical items in a more systematic and objective manner than has typically been used for vocabulary instruction. This article adopts a corpus-based approach to accommodate the vocabulary instructional needs of students enrolled in university reading support courses. The adopted model identifies high-frequency interdisciplinary academic vocabulary and their functions in authentic academic language with the support of the Word and Phrase Tool (WPT). Considering academic vocabulary to be an interrelated feature of academic language, as opposed to a series of isolated items, the instructional model shows how the use of this tool, in connection with a well-designed selection process, can advance the capabilities of instructors while doing justice to the dual necessities of depth and brevity.

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基于语料库的大学阅读辅助课程跨学科词汇模型的构建

摘要语料库的可用性大大增强了以比通常用于词汇教学更系统、更客观的方式识别高频词汇的可能性。本文采用基于语料库的方法来满足大学阅读支持课程学生的词汇教学需求。所采用的模型在单词和短语工具（WPT）的支持下，识别了高频跨学科学术词汇及其在真实学术语言中的功能。考虑到学术词汇是学术语言的一个相互关联的特征，而不是一系列孤立的项目，教学模型表明，使用这一工具，结合精心设计的选择过程，可以提高教师的能力，同时兼顾深度和简洁的双重必要性。

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Journal of College Reading and Learning Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language

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期刊介绍： The Journal of College Reading and Learning (JCRL) invites authors to submit their scholarly research for publication. JCRL is an international forum for the publication of high-quality articles on theory, research, and policy related to areas of developmental education, postsecondary literacy instruction, and learning assistance at the postsecondary level. JCRL is published triannually in the spring, summer, and fall for the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). In addition to publishing investigations of the reading, writing, thinking, and studying of college learners, JCRL seeks manuscripts with a college focus on the following topics: effective teaching for struggling learners, learning through new technologies and texts, learning support for culturally and linguistically diverse student populations, and program evaluations of developmental and learning assistance instructional models.