Process writing and vocabulary development: comparing Lexical Frequency Profiles across drafts  

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Muncie, James

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 30 no. 2 (Jun. 2002), page 225-235.
Topik: Process writing; Vocabulary development; Lexical frequency; EFL
Fulltext: Muncie_James.pdf (93.71KB)

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Process writing is often used as the methodology of choice on writing courses in EFL countries, where there is, however, a greater need for writing courses to be able to contribute to more general language improvement than exists in the ESL contexts for which it was designed. To see if a process writing approach was useful in improving the vocabulary of students at a Japanese university, a timed composition, and the first and final drafts of a composition written through process writing, were analysed using the Lexical Frequency Profile (LFP). The first and final drafts were also analysed together. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the LFPs of the three compositions. The LFPs of the revisions made between the first and final draft did, however, show a higher percentage of more sophisticated vocabulary than those of the compositions as a whole. It is therefore assumed that process writing can be a useful means of helping students to stretch their vocabulary, although it is suggested that explicitly concentrating on vocabulary in the pre-writing stage may encourage even greater vocabulary development. Such an adjustment to the approach could help make it more suitable for teachers and students in EFL contexts.

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