Volume 36, No. 1 Corpus Lists for English Learners: Supporting Reading Comprehension of Digital Science Resources

Corpus Lists for English Learners: Supporting Reading Comprehension of Digital Science Resources

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Volume 36, No. 1
contributor.author:
Arndt, Rebeca
date.accessioned:
2024-01-30T21:19:38Z
date.available:
2024-01-30T21:19:38Z
date.copyright:
2024
date.issued:
2024-01-31
description.abstract:
This study explored the lexical coverage of corpus-based vocabulary lists (general, academic, and content-specific) across several million tokens gathered from digital science resources (DSR) for middle school (6–8 grade) students in the United States. The goal was to estimate the extent to which a combination of well-known word lists, mostly designed for the needs of L2 learners, might help students reach text coverage that could result in reasonable comprehension of science texts. The findings of this study show that: (a) the top 570 word families in the newer Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) provide 75% more lexical coverage in the corpus than the 570 word families in the older Academic Word List (AWL), (b) a series of lists designed for second language learners, such as General Service List (GSL), Academic Word List (AWL), and the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Science List (about 2,900 word families) offer 88.33% coverage, and (c) the GSL and the Middle School Vocabulary List (MSVL) for Science (fewer than 2,500 word families) provide 87.77% coverage.
endingpage:
16
format.extent:
16
identifier.citation:
Arndt, R. (2024). Corpus Lists for English Learners: Supporting Reading Comprehension of Digital Science Resources. Reading in a Foreign Language, 36(1), 1-16. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67453
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67453
language:
eng
number:
1
publicationname:
Reading in a Foreign Language
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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/rfl/item/590
startingpage:
1
subject:
vocabulary, science digital texts, lexical coverage, corpus-based vocabulary lists, middle school English L2 learners, middle school science texts, L2 science reading comprehension, English for Academic Purposes
title:
Corpus Lists for English Learners: Supporting Reading Comprehension of Digital Science Resources
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Article Text
volume:
36