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Developing a discipline-specific corpus and high-frequency word list for science and engineering students in graduate school

Suwako Uehara, Hibiya Haraki, Stuart McLean

– Japanese graduate school students in the field of science and engineering need to read academic research in their second language (L2), and such tasks can be challenging.


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Regular Article

Pages

57-68

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7820/vli.v11.2.uehara

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Abstract
Japanese graduate school students in the field of science and engineering need to read academic research in their second language (L2), and such tasks can be challenging. Studies showed a strong (0.78) correlation between vocabulary size and reading comprehension (McLean et al., 2020), and providing high-frequency word lists could enhance comprehension. In this work-in-progress, 1.35 million tokens of professor-recommended reading materials were used to investigate a method to create a vocabulary list that would benefit science majors in graduate school, the procedures to create a corpus and a high-frequency word list efficiently, and the steps required to create a cleaner corpus. This paper outlines a systematic literature-informed method that includes input from professors in the field, the combined use of tailored script in MATLAB and AntCont (Anthony, 2022) generated corpus and high-frequency words efficiently, and repeated comparison of original PDFs and the matching text files, then adding MATLAB script to deal with specific issues created by a cleaner text. This proposed method can be applied in other contexts to enhance the generation of high-frequency word lists.

Suggested citation

Uehara, S., Haraki, H., & McLean, S. (2022). Developing a discipline-specific corpus and high-frequency word list for science and engineering students in graduate school. Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 11(2), 57–68. https://doi.org/10.7820/vli.v11.2.uehara

 

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