Lexical Demands of Academic Written English: From Students' Assignments to Scholarly Publications

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Hauptverfasser:	Nhu Huynh Le, Hung Tan Ha
Format:	Recurso educativo Open Access
Sprache:	en
Veröffentlicht:	2023
Schlagworte:	Academic Language Writing (Composition) North American English Word Lists Lexicology Writing Assignments Writing for Publication Scholarship Journal Articles Difficulty Level Vocabulary Language Tests Public Speaking Newspapers Textbooks
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contents	Lexical Demands of Academic Written English: From Students' Assignments to Scholarly Publications Nhu Huynh Le Hung Tan Ha Academic Language Writing (Composition) North American English Word Lists Lexicology Writing Assignments Writing for Publication Scholarship Journal Articles Difficulty Level Vocabulary Language Tests Public Speaking Newspapers Textbooks The article presents a lexical study that investigates the lexical demands of academic written texts at different levels of writing. By employing the British National Corpus/ Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA) word list and the Academic Word List (AWL), the present study analyzed data from the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus, which contained 2,761 student assignments, and the Public Library of Science One (PLOS ONE) corpus which included 4,000 scholarly articles. Results from the analyses demonstrated significant differences in lexical difficulty between students' assignments and scholarly publications. The proportion of academic vocabulary in written texts was also found to increase as the writers' levels went up. Cross-discipline comparisons highlighted the difference in lexical difficulties between scientific disciplines.
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spellingShingle	Lexical Demands of Academic Written English: From Students' Assignments to Scholarly Publications Nhu Huynh Le Hung Tan Ha Academic Language Writing (Composition) North American English Word Lists Lexicology Writing Assignments Writing for Publication Scholarship Journal Articles Difficulty Level Vocabulary Language Tests Public Speaking Newspapers Textbooks Lexical Demands of Academic Written English: From Students' Assignments to Scholarly Publications Nhu Huynh Le Hung Tan Ha Academic Language Writing (Composition) North American English Word Lists Lexicology Writing Assignments Writing for Publication Scholarship Journal Articles Difficulty Level Vocabulary Language Tests Public Speaking Newspapers Textbooks The article presents a lexical study that investigates the lexical demands of academic written texts at different levels of writing. By employing the British National Corpus/ Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA) word list and the Academic Word List (AWL), the present study analyzed data from the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus, which contained 2,761 student assignments, and the Public Library of Science One (PLOS ONE) corpus which included 4,000 scholarly articles. Results from the analyses demonstrated significant differences in lexical difficulty between students' assignments and scholarly publications. The proportion of academic vocabulary in written texts was also found to increase as the writers' levels went up. Cross-discipline comparisons highlighted the difference in lexical difficulties between scientific disciplines.
title	Lexical Demands of Academic Written English: From Students' Assignments to Scholarly Publications
topic	Academic Language Writing (Composition) North American English Word Lists Lexicology Writing Assignments Writing for Publication Scholarship Journal Articles Difficulty Level Vocabulary Language Tests Public Speaking Newspapers Textbooks
url	https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1414291

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