The CEFR Stratification of English Productive Vocabulary of Chinese University Undergraduates Based on DIY Learner English Corpus

This paper analyzes the productive vocabulary (PV) of non-English majors in a highly prestigious university in China through a DIY learner corpus of English compositions and the Productive Vocabulary Level Test. Based on the total PV and the average PV, this paper compares the corpus with the CEFR-a...

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Published inJournal of language teaching and research Vol. 8; no. 5; p. 909
Main Author Sun, Dongyun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Academy Publication Co., Ltd 01.09.2017
Subjects
Chinese languages
College students
Corpus linguistics
Dictionaries
Educational standards
English as a second language instruction
English as a second language learning
Foreign language learning
Second language vocabulary learning
System theory
Vocabulary development
Vocabulary instruction
China
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Summary:This paper analyzes the productive vocabulary (PV) of non-English majors in a highly prestigious university in China through a DIY learner corpus of English compositions and the Productive Vocabulary Level Test. Based on the total PV and the average PV, this paper compares the corpus with the CEFR-aligned English Vocabulary Profile (EVP) of Cambridge University. The results show that some of the outstanding students can attain Level B2 of EVP while most students’ PV is comparable to Level B1. The results of this study shed light on strengthening vocabulary teaching in College English teaching in China.
ISSN:1798-4769
2053-0684
DOI:10.17507/jltr.0805.09