Academic Vocabulary in the Abstracts of Nursing Journals: A Corpus-based Study  

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Yang, Ming-Nuan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 9 no. 3 (2013), page 98-125.
Topik: Academic Word List (AWL); nursing journals; academic words; corpus
Fulltext: 98-125.pdf (136.55KB)

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The present study aimed to investigate the frequency and use of Coxhead’s (2000) academic word list (AWL) in the abstracts of nursing journal articles. A 239,117-word corpus called Nursing Journal Abstract Corpus (NJAC) was created for this study. The corpus consists of 1,000 abstracts of nursing research articles that have been published in four international nursing journals and four Taiwanese nursing journals over twelve years. The findings of this study suggested that the text coverage of AWL vocabulary accounted for 13.98% of the entire corpus. Word-token and word-family analyses of the corpus showed that the abstracts of the international nursing journals used many more academic words than the English abstracts of Taiwanese journal papers. To help non-native speaking graduate students comprehend and appropriately use academic words, the study provided a frequency-based academic word list, 174 (30.53%) out of the 570 AWL word families. Pedagogical implications are made for teachers, course designers, researchers and nursing students with academic purposes

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