电影评论是否适合作为ESL/EFL教学和阅读材料?

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

MODERNA SPRAK Pub Date : 2021-12-29 DOI:10.58221/mosp.v115i4.6772

Milica Vuković Stamatović, Vesna Bratić

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寻找足够和有趣的内容是外语学习材料的教师和作者经常遇到的挑战。在本文中，我们从词汇的角度来评估电影评论在英语教学中的适用性。采用词汇频率分析的方法，我们研究了一个130万字的美国电影评论语料库，发现达到最低的阅读理解水平(95%的词汇覆盖率)需要大约5000个单词的知识，而达到理想的阅读阈值(98%的词汇覆盖率)需要多达13000个单词。我们的结论是，非改编的电影评论作为一种类型只适合高级学习者。此外，研究表明，电影评论并不是一个很好的正式词汇来源，而是一个很好的观点词汇来源，因此我们建议，在ESL/EFL语境下，电影评论词汇的教学目标应该是表达观点的积极和消极词汇。

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How suitable are movie reviews for use as ESL/EFL teaching and reading materials?

Finding adequate and interesting content is a challenge teachers and writers of foreign language learning materials frequently come across. In this paper, we evaluate how suitable, vocabulary-wise, movie reviews are for English language teaching and learning purposes. Employing the method of lexical frequency profiling, we study a 1.3-million-word corpus of American movie reviews, and find that a knowledge of about 5,000 words is needed to achieve the minimum reading comprehension level (at 95%-vocabulary coverage), whereas as many as 13,000 words are needed for reaching the ideal reading threshold (98%-vocabulary coverage). We conclude that, non-adapted, movie reviews as a genre are only suitable for advanced learners. In addition, the study shows that movie reviews are not an excellent source of formal vocabulary, but are an excellent source of opinion vocabulary, and we therefore suggest that the teaching and learning target in terms of vocabulary for movie reviews in ESL/EFL contexts should be on positive and negative words expressing opinion.

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