Detail Corpus Analysis of The Word ‘Friendship’ A Study in Class of English for Academic Purposes (Eap)   Oleh:  Budiartha, Christianus I Wayan Eka Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 4, page 60-64. Topik: English forAcademic Purposes (EAP); Academic Word List (AWL); COCA and BNC Fulltext: hal 60.pdf (9.39MB) Isi artikel Academic vocabulary has been identified as one of the main challenges for learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Nowadays, many institutions offer formal education programs by employing English immersion, however, big gaps appear when the students are required to read academic texts as well as to write academic writings. This study is a corpus-based lexical study which aims to explore the use of words in Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) in student’s academic writing at Sampoerna University, Jakarta. It examines adjectives thatappear before the word ‘friendship’, which is also one of the topics of essay writing being suggested in class. The analysis was conducted by comparing students’ writing between male and female, and between students from Java and outside of Java to see what adjectives were being used to describe the word ‘friendship’. The result shows that female group utilized the words ‘good’ and ‘important’ to describe friendship, while male group used the words ‘real’ and ‘great’. Surprisingly, according to category Java and non-Java, those adjectives which describe the word ‘friendship’ mostly appeared for non-Java students. There are also some similar features appeared in COCA and BNC that are related to students’ language background and cultural belief Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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