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The lexical profile of academic spoken English - Coggle Diagram
The lexical profile of academic spoken English
Introduction
Aim of the study
Determine the coverage of the AWL
Explore vocabulary size
Words we need
Measure Coverage
Coverage of the Academic Word list
Research questions
Conclusion
To reach 95 % coverage of ASE
Proper nouns
4000 word families
Marginal words
To reach 95% coverage of ASE ( with AWL)
2000 word families
Proper nouns
Marginal words
Methodology
Materials
University of reading
100 lectures and 39 seminars
Base corpus
Life and Medical science
Social sciences
Arts and Humanities
phusical sciences
Discussion
3) AWL can't completely cover academic English speaking Vocabulary
4) AWL has not been equally shared across disciplines
2) great difference in vocabulary in each discipline
1)Knowledge of 1.000-2000 word family
AWL has role in supporting to save learners energy and diligent work
Results
Table 3
79 AWL word families
Table 4
Cumulate coverage of the AWL items
Table 2
Highest coverage in Social Science (5. 21%)
lowest coverage in the arts and Humanities(3.82%)
Table 5
the potential Coverage with knowledge of the AWL
Table 1
Social science ( less demanding lexically)
Life and Medical science