Academic Words in Education Research Articles: A Corpus Study

Mozaffari, Ali; Moini, Raouf

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.03.545

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“…Such as, Chung & Nation (2003) The importance and effectiveness of Coxhead's (2000) AWL have been brought under discussion by the various researchers (e.g., Chung & Nation, 2003;Mudraya, 2006;Chen & Ge, 2007;Vongpumivitch et al, 2009). While some studies (Martinez, 2009;Mozaffari & Moini, 2014) do not consider the AWL as an effective source in terms of text coverage in the specific fields and disciplines. This study mainly tries to explore the usefulness of the AWL word forms in education research papers as well as an attempt is made to extract the non-AWL words frequently appear in education research.…”

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“…Pakistani students, being non-native speakers of English and belonging to ESL context, at all academic levels are assumed to have very limited vocabulary knowledge which might be a factor influencing their proficiency in academic discourse (Mozaffari & Moini, 2014). There might have been less focus on teaching vocabulary by language teachers which could possibly be the main factor for students' lack vocabulary knowledge.…”

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Academic Vocabulary Use in Doctoral Theses: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis of Academic Word List (AWL) in Major Scientific Disciplinary Groups

Pathan¹,

Memon²,

Memon³

et al. 2018

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Since the development of academic word list (AWL) by Coxhead (2000), multiple studies have attempted to investigate its effectiveness and relevance of the included academic vocabulary in the texts or corpora of various academic fields, disciplines, subjects and also in multiple academic genres and registers. Similarly, this study also aims at investigating the text coverage of Coxhead's (2000) AWL in Pakistani doctoral theses of two major scientific disciplinary groups (Biological & health sciences as well as Physical sciences); furthermore the study also analyses the frequency of the AWL word families to extract the most frequent word families in the theses texts. In order to achieve this goal, a pre-built corpus of Pakistani doctoral theses (PAKDTh) (Aziz, 2016) comprises of 200 doctoral theses from two major scientific disciplinary groups was used as textual data. Using concordance software AntConc version 3.4.4 (Anthony, 2016), computer-driven data analysis revealed that in total 8.76% (496839 words) of the text in Pakistani doctoral thesis corpus is covered by the AWL words. Further distributing the analysis per sub-lists, shows that the first three sub-lists of AWL accounted for almost 57% of the whole text coverage. An attempt was made to further analyze the AWL text coverage by considering the frequency of occurrences in terms of word families. The findings showed that among 570-word families of Coxhead's (2000) AWL, 550-word families with the sum of 96.49% are found to occur more than 10 times in PAKDTh corpus, which are taken as word families used in the corpus. This study concludes that Coxhead's (2000) AWL is proved effective for the writing of theses. On the basis of the findings, further possible academic implications are discussed in detail.

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Academic Vocabulary Use in Doctoral Theses: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis of Academic Word List (AWL) in Major Scientific Disciplinary Groups

Pathan¹,

Memon²,

Memon³

et al. 2018

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“…This research does not attempt to establish a discipline-specific academic wordlist as suggested by the pioneering researcher Coxhead (2000), who first developed the Academic Word List (AWL), and other researchers who followed in her footsteps. In their inquiry, they attempted to identify the academic words used in research article corpora in a variety of disciplines such as applied linguistics, education, agriculture and engineering (Chung & Nation, 2003;Martínez, Beck, & Panza, 2009;Mozaffari & Moini, 2014;Mudraya, 2006;Vongpumivitch, Huang, & Chang, 2009). Unlike these studies, this research's focus is on previously established academic words or lexical items, which are essential to academic research and are subsequently inevitable to any researcher intent on investigating research problems.…”

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A Corpus-Driven Study of Terms Used to Refer to Articles and Methods in Research Abstracts in the Fields of Economics, Education, English Literature, Nursing, and Political Science

Hussein

Haider

Al-Sayyed

2021

JESR

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The present study attempts to identify the most frequent terms that are used in research abstracts relating to research articles designations, research methods, and research goals and quantify them in various disciplines, namely, economics, education, English literature, nursing, and political science to see whether there is a unique pattern characterizing terms peculiar to each of the five disciplines under investigation. It also explains why specific terms are overused/ underused by researchers. The current study follows a corpus-driven approach. For this purpose, we compiled a corpus of 2500 research abstracts from online refereed journals in the fields mentioned above. The corpus linguistic software program, AntConc (3.5.8), was used to analyze the collected data. The analysis revealed that some terms are more frequently used in some areas than others. For example, the term 'study' was the most common word to designate academic research. The most frequent term to refer to population and subject-related terms was 'sample/s,' while the least frequent was 'interviewee/s.' The words used to designate tools or instruments varied, with 'test' being the most frequent and 'checklist/s' the least. This study is of significant benefit for researchers in various disciplines. It acquaints them with terms used to designate articles in their respective fields, in addition to terms used most frequently to refer to sample- related terms and finally to words used for setting goals such as objectives, aims, and goals. This, in turn, can help researchers and graduate students embarking on writing their theses to opt for the most relevant terms peculiar to their disciplines. Unlike most studies that focused on developing academic word lists (AWL), this study set off with terms previously established and used in research bodies and research abstracts to unveil their popularity and the extent to which they are used in various discipline abstracts. Received: 20 January 2021 / Accepted: 30 March 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021

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“…Based on a research done by Mozaffari & Moini (2014), Pakistani students, being non-native speakers of English and belonging to ESL context, at all academic levels are assumed to have very limited vocabulary knowledge which might be a factor influencing their proficiency in academic discourse.…”

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Initial Vocabulary Analysis of Nouns in the Field of Legal Studies

Utami

2019

LEEA

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The purpose of this research is to analyze initial vocabulary of nouns in the field of Legal Studies had by the first semester students of Law Study Program of University of Kutai Kartanegara in academic year 2019/2020. This study used descriptive qualitative design. The research subjects were 10 students of the first semester. The instrument of the study was vocabulary test in the form of written test by using match type test. The results of this study are as follows: (1) there were 9 words that became the most common initial vocabularies of nouns in the field of Legal Studies, (2) There were 6 words that became the most unfamiliar nouns for almost all the students. Based on the findings of the research it could be summarized (1) the initial vocabularies of nouns in the field of Legal Studies were varies but still very limited; (2) the nouns in the field of Legal Studies that were not familiar for the students were also varies. It meant that each student has different familiar and unfamiliar nouns. The initial vocabularies of nouns in the field of Legal Studies had by the students were different one each other. Some students had more initial vocabularies but some others had less initial vocabularies. Keywords: initial vocabularies, nouns, legal studies

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Academic Words in Education Research Articles: A Corpus Study

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Academic Vocabulary Use in Doctoral Theses: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis of Academic Word List (AWL) in Major Scientific Disciplinary Groups

Academic Vocabulary Use in Doctoral Theses: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis of Academic Word List (AWL) in Major Scientific Disciplinary Groups

A Corpus-Driven Study of Terms Used to Refer to Articles and Methods in Research Abstracts in the Fields of Economics, Education, English Literature, Nursing, and Political Science

Initial Vocabulary Analysis of Nouns in the Field of Legal Studies

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