컨벤션영어 텍스트의 어휘 목록 생성과 분석

• Published in: 영어교육연구 Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 145 - 165
• Main Author: 권선희(Kwon, Sun-Hee)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 팬코리아영어교육학회(구 영남영어교육학회) 31.12.2013; Pan-Korea English Teachers Association; 팬코리아영어교육학회
• Subjects: 영어와문학; 어휘학습; 전문 코퍼스; vocabulary list; 어휘목록; specialized corpus; sub-technical vocabulary; vocabulary learning; 특수목적영어; 준기술어휘 ESP
• ISSN: 1226-6566; 2671-9460
• DOI: 10.17936/pkelt.2013.25.4.008

The goal of the present study is to develop and examine the vocabulary lists of a convention English corpus. The lists were extracted from small specialized corpus of written texts in English from various resources about convention business. The two vocabulary lists–frequency list and keyword list–were identified and analyzed. Also the words indentified through the frequency and keyword list were examined in terms of the range of the GSL, AWL and Off-list. The analysis showed that all the words in the two vocabulary lists were strongly related to the convention business. Also it was shown that the most 50 frequent words in a convention English corpus compiled in this study consisted of 37 basic words (GSL) and 13 AWL and Off-list words, while the 50 keywords consisted of 30 basic words and 20 AWL and Off-list words. The results suggested 1) an importance of basic words and sub-technical words to understand the texts of convention English, and 2) an importance of using both the frequent vocabulary list and keyword list in teaching and learning convention English in class. Suggestions for using vocabulary lists from ESP corpus into an ESP classroom are discussed. KCI Citation Count: 6