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A Corpus-Based Comparison of the Academic Word List and the Academic Vocabulary ListNewman, Jacob Andrew 01 July 2016 (has links)
Research has identified the importance of academic vocabulary (e.g., Corson, 1997; Gardner, 2013; Hsueh-chao & Nation, 2000). In turn, many researchers have focused on identifying the most frequent and salient words present in academic texts across registers and presenting these words in lists, such as The Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000). Gardner and Davies (2014), recognizing the limitations of the AWL, have developed a new list known as The Academic Vocabulary List (AVL). This present study examines the appearance of the 570 AWL word families and the top 570 AVL word families in the Academic Textbook Corpus (ATC) – a 1.9-million-word corpus created from three middle school, three high school, and three college level textbooks from the disciplines of American history, mathematics, and physical sciences. The study determined (1) word families from both the AWL and the AVL found in the ATC, (2) words families unique to the AWL in the ATC, (3) word families unique to the AVL in the ATC, and (4) characteristic differences between the AWL and AVL unique word families. The results suggest that the AWL and AVL capture high frequency academic word families that are salient across a variety of academic disciplines and grade levels, but the AVL provides a greater number of unique frequent core academic word families.
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Kompilátor zdrojového kódu pro PLC SIMATIC / Compiler of source code for SIMATIC PLCKubát, Zdeněk January 2014 (has links)
The thesis discusses an independent compiler for STEP 7 and WinCC V7.0 applications of the SIEMENS company. The compiler processes source files generated in STEP 7 and subsequently saves the processed data in .xls type intermediatefiles. The data of the intermediatefiles serve as source data for functions generating files with tags to be imported into WinCC V7.0. The compiler was created using the C# programming language in Visual Studio 2010.
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Kompilátor zdrojového kódu pro PLC SIMATIC / Compiler of source code for SIMATIC PLCKubát, Zdeněk January 2014 (has links)
The thesis discusses an independent compiler for STEP 7 and WinCC V7.0 applications of the SIEMENS company. The compiler processes source files generated in STEP 7 and subsequently saves the processed data in .xls type intermediatefiles. The data of the intermediatefiles serve as source data for functions generating files with tags to be imported into WinCC V7.0. The compiler was created using the C# programming language in Visual Studio 2010.
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Essential 500 Wordlist for the Foundations Program at the Brigham Young University's English Language CenterJung, Inho 15 April 2010 (has links) (PDF)
In order to help ESL students in the Foundations Program at BYU's ELC, I have developed a 500-word list of essential English vocabulary. This list attempts to reach one of the goals of the institute's curriculum, which is to develop systematic, integrated vocabulary instruction. Published literature reveals that studying with a list in conjunction with explicit instruction can enhance L2 vocabulary learning when the instruction is systematically integrated with other skills and activities. The literature also shows the importance of learning the most frequent and essential words first, which can be found in the General Service List and the Academic Word List according to learners' needs. In order to develop an essential vocabulary list of 500 words for the Foundations Program at the ELC, I used several strategies. First, to investigate which words in their textbooks the students use, I analyzed the graded readers and listening books required in the curriculum of the Foundations Program. Second, after investigating the texts of the textbooks, the second step was to conduct a survey in order to investigate learners' lexical knowledge. To develop a reliable survey, reliable research strategies were conducted. The first survey was conducted at the end of Fall Semester 2009. Following the first survey, the second survey was conducted at the beginning of Winter Semester 2010. The administration of the two surveys revealed the students' self-reported knowledge about specific vocabulary items in the lists. Following the administration and analysis of the two surveys, I generated the final 500-word list for the students in the Foundations Program at BYU's ELC. The words were based on the students' needs and knowledge, and were generated based on the essential words from the GSL and the AWL in order to meet the goals of the curriculum of the Foundations Program.
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Automated Transforms of Software Models: A Design Pattern ApproachGump, Brandon Adam 16 December 2009 (has links)
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Comparing the AWL and AVL in Textbooks from an Intensive English ProgramHernandez, Michelle Morgan 01 July 2017 (has links)
Academic vocabulary is an important determiner of academic success for both native and non-native speakers of English (Corson, 1997; Gardner, 2013; Hsueh-chao & Nation, 2000). In an attempt to address this need, Coxhead (2000) developed the Academic Word List (AWL)—a list of words common across a range of academic disciplines; however, Gardner & Davies (2014) identified potential limitations in the AWL and have more recently produced their own list of core academic vocabulary—the Academic Vocabulary List (AVL). This study compares the occurrences of the AWL and AVL word families in an intensive English program (IEP) corpus of 50 texts to determine which list has the best overall coverage, frequency, and range in the corpus. While the results show a strong presence of both lists in the IEP corpus, the AVL outperforms the AWL in every measure analyzed in the study. Suggestions for instruction and future research regarding these lists are provided.
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An investigation into the use of Word Lists in university foundation programs in the United Arab EmiratesBurkett, Theodore Howard January 2017 (has links)
There has been increasing interest in research on creating word lists in the past decade with more than 60 separate lists being published along with Nation’s (2016) timely Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing. However, this focus on word lists has primarily been on creating them and has not necessarily extended to looking at how they are actually used. In order to help answer the question of how these lists are utilized in practice, this exploratory, interpretive study based on interviews with teachers and assessment/curriculum developers looks at how word lists are used at five tertiary English foundation programs in the United Arab Emirates. The main findings include the following. Insufficient vocabulary knowledge was deemed one of the most significant problems that students faced. Additionally, word lists played a role in all five of the institutions represented in the study, and the Common European Framework (CEFR) was used in conjunction with vocabulary frequency lists to help set expected vocabulary learning in some programs. Furthermore, teacher intuition was used to modify lists in three of the five programs and online applications were used in all five programs. The thesis explores a number of areas in depth including: how vocabulary lists are being used in the programs, the use of the AWL in this context and potential problems related to this, the role of teacher intuition in the customization of lists, the role of CEFR related frameworks in these programs, the use of computer applications to assist with list vocabulary acquisition, what the selected vocabulary acquisition activities tell us about beliefs about vocabulary teaching and learning, and some final comments about utilizing a list. One of the key findings was the development of a novel framework for categorizing the use of word lists into four general areas: course planning, teaching and learning, assessment and materials development with sub-categories for each. This framework and the related examples could be utilized to evaluate the suitability of specific lists and to help set developmental targets for the process of adopting a new list and transforming it into something that could be used to direct and support vocabulary teaching and learning. It could also be developed further as more examples of practice emerge in different contexts and hopefully set the stage for more development about how vocabulary lists are used.
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Vocational and non-vocational language learning textbooks in EFL classrooms in Sweden : A comparison of topics, use of Swedish and vocabularyFagerstrand, Jenny January 2018 (has links)
This independent degree project investigates possible differences and similarities between vocational and non-vocational language learning textbooks in terms of topics covered, use of Swedish, and vocabulary levels. The textbooks analyzed in this study are Viewpoints 1, Viewpoints vocational, Blueprint A version 2.0 and Blueprint vocational, and they are aimed at the course English 5 in Swedish senior high school. In order to compare and analyze the differences between the textbooks, the Swedish words were counted in order to compare the proportion of Swedish words of each textbook. The texts and tasks from each textbook were made into a corpus. The corpus was analyzed with the tool Text Inspector, and connected to the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference and the Academic Word List. The results show that vocational textbooks have a larger focus in the topic of social and working life than the non-vocational textbooks. However, the results also suggest that the textbooks are quite similar in terms of academic words and the CEFR levels. The results also suggest that an investigation of a larger number of textbooks from several publishers could present a different result. The pedagogical implications that can be drawn from the results are that teachers need to know that differences may occur and that textbooks might need additional material.
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以型態組合為主的關鍵詞擷取技術在學術寫作字彙上的研究 / A pattern approach to keyword extraction for academic writing vocabulary邵智捷, Shao, Chih Chieh Unknown Date (has links)
隨著時間的推移演進，人們瞭解到將知識經驗著作成文獻典籍保存下來供後人研究開發的重要性。時至今日，以英語為主的學術寫作論文成為全世界最主要的研究交流媒介。而對於英語為非母語的研究專家而言，在進行英語學術寫作上常常會遇到用了不適當的字彙或搭配詞導致無法確切的傳達自己的研究成果，或是在表達上過於貧乏的問題，因此英語學術寫作字彙與搭配詞的學習與使用就顯得相當重要。
在本研究中，我們藉由收集大量不同國家以及不同研究領域的學術論文為基礎，建構現實中實際使用的語料庫，並且建立數種詞性標籤型態，使用關鍵詞擷取關鍵詞擷取(Keyword Extraction)技術從中擷取出學術著作中常用的學術寫作字彙候選詞，當作是學術常用寫作字彙之初步結果，隨即將候選詞導入關鍵詞分析的指標形態模型，將候選詞依照指標特徵選出具有代表指標意義的進一步候選詞。
在實驗方面，透過對不同範圍的樣本資料進行篩選，並導入統計上的方法對字彙進行不同領域共通性的分析檢證，再加上輔助篩選的機制後，最後求得名詞和動詞分別在學術寫作中常用的字彙，也以此字彙為基礎，發掘出語料庫中常用的搭配詞組合，提出以英語為外國語的研究學者以及學生在學術寫作上的常用字彙與搭配詞組合作為參考，在學術寫作上能夠提供更多樣性且正確的研究論述的協助。 / With the evolution over time, people start to know the importance of taking their knowledge and experience into literature texts and preserving them for future research. Until now, academic writing research papers mainly in English become the world’s leading communication media all over the world. For those non-native English researchers, they often encounter with the inappropriate vocabularies or collocations which causes them not to pass on their idea accurately or to express their research poorly. As a result, it’s very important to know how to learn or to use the correct academic writing in English vocabularies and collocations.
In this study, we constructed the real academic thesis corpus which includes different countries and fields of academic research. The keyword extraction technique based on the several Part-of-Speech tag patterns is used for capturing the common academic writing vocabulary candidates in the academic works to be the initial result of the common vocabulary of academic writing. The candidate words would be introduced to the index analysis model of keyword and be picked out to the further meaningful candidate words according to the index characteristics.
For the experiments, the sample data with different fields would be filtered and the vocabularies on different fields of commonality would be analyzed and verified through statistical methods. Moreover, the auxiliary filter mechanism would also be applied to get the common vocabularies in academic writing with nouns and verbs. Based on these vocabularies, we could discover the common combination with the words in the academic thesis corpus and provide them to the non-native English researchers and students as a reference with the common vocabularies and collocations in academic writing. Hopefully the study could help them to write more rich and correct research papers in the future.
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An assessment of student's English vocabulary levels and an exploration of the vocabulary profile of teacher's spoken discourse in an international high schoolCreighton, Graham Robert 10 1900 (has links)
In many international schools where English is the language of learning and teaching there are large percentages of students whose first language is not English. Many of these students may have low vocabulary levels which inhibits their chances of taking full advantage of their education. Low vocabulary levels can be a particular problem for students in mainstream classes where fluent English speaking teachers are using English to teach content areas of Mathematics, Science and History. Not only do students have to comprehend the low-frequency, academic and technical vocabulary pertaining to the subject, but they also need to know the higher frequency vocabulary that makes up general English usage. If students’ vocabulary levels fall too far below the vocabulary levels with which their teachers are speaking, then their chance of comprehending the topic is small, as is their chance of succeeding in their subjects.
This study has two broad aims. Firstly, I have set out to assess the English vocabulary levels of students at an international school where English is the language of learning and teaching. The majority of students at this school do not have English as their first language. The second aim of this study is to explore the vocabulary profile of the teachers’ spoken discourse at the research school. By gaining a better understanding of the nature of teacher discourse – specifically the percentage of high, mid and low-frequency vocabulary, as well as academic vocabulary that they use – English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers will be in a stronger position to identify what the vocabulary learning task is and be able to assist students in reaching the vocabulary levels necessary to make sense of their lessons. This study revealed a large gap between the generally low vocabulary levels of ESL students and the vocabulary levels spoken by their teachers. As a result the need for explicit vocabulary instruction and learning is shown to be very important in English medium (international) schools, where there are large numbers of students whose first language is not English. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Applied Linguistics)
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