Can the Essential Lexicon of Geology be Appropriately Represented in an Intuitively Written EAP Module?

Al-Mahrooqi, Rahma; Al-Busaidi, Saleh; Mukundan, Jayakaran; Ahour, Touran; Jin, Ng Yu

doi:10.5539/ells.v1n1p50

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“…It implies that the GSL words coverage is essential even in technical textbooks like those of the civil engineering textbooks. These findings for the GSL coverage were quite parallel with that of the coverage reported in analysing the science (natural) textbooks [1,6]. AWL accounts for almost10% of text coverage in academic texts [4].…”

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confidence: 79%

“…The type/token ratio (TTR) is the number of types per token, giving an overview of the lexical density of words in the target texts. It has also been labelled as density ratio [1,27,35]. Type/token ratio is defined as lexical variation (LV) [18] and referred to it as the diversity of the vocabulary used in a corpus [42].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Engineering students need be given exposure to actual learning materials in order to help them to be associated with their discourse community. Specific field students are believed to lack exposure to technical and sub-technical words in their respective fields [1]. Furthermore, these students are typically exposed to commonplace English only, not the kind of English that they need to assist them perform better in tertiary institutions (technical field) or even at workplace [16].…”

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The Language of Civil Engineering: Corpus-based Studies on Vocational School Textbooks in Malaysia

Thiruchelvam¹,

Jin²,

Chong³

et al. 2018

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Engineering textbooks are specialized in nature, containing technical terminology which can be challenging to learners. For better comprehension of engineering concepts, there is a need for bridging the language gap by focusing on the frequently used and important engineering vocabulary. Most English Language Teaching (ELT) teachers do not necessary possess the specialist language in the field of engineering which can be rather confusing to them. It has been reported that Malaysian engineering textbooks (syllabus) were not written based on any word lists or corpora. Hence, learners require the language needed in the field of engineering – English for Engineering Purposes (EEP). To meet this requirement, specialised engineering textbooks were studied to specify the meaningful lexical components which can facilitate learners to assimilate into their discourse community. In the field of civil engineering, there is no exception that learners too need to understand the composition of words found in their textbooks. This study shows the exact word lists and suggests what learners and teachers can do to learn the “language of civil engineering”.

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The Language of Civil Engineering: Corpus-based Studies on Vocational School Textbooks in Malaysia

Thiruchelvam¹,

Jin²,

Chong³

et al. 2018

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“…Corpus text analysis is useful in finding the best way to introduce language components into specific and specialist discourse (Mukundan, 2009). In general, the collected scholarly body comes from instructional or learning materials such as textbooks (Ng et al, 2013;Al-Mahrooqi & al., 2011). The corpus is very likely to act as a reference for any lexis and vocabulary widely used in intended textbooks or instructional material.…”

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The Language of Trauma Narrative Communication Management

Chin¹

2022

JTS

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Trauma experiences or post-traumatic disorders prove to be an uprising phenomenon faced by people around the globe. This paper examines the language of trauma studies in two textbooks authored by a prominent trauma analysis expert who has been in the field for more than 20 years. This paper posits that the study or content analysis of trauma narratives discourse textbooks could contribute to self-efficacy beliefs especially in communication management. Using the corpus-based approach, essential keywords, and a word list of the essential language of trauma headwords are identified. Thus, with the 209 identified headwords, the development of the new word list specifically to trauma narratives discourse has been facilitated. The production of the word list of the language of trauma is aimed to assist disaster risk management researchers and authorities in identifying the ‘sensitive’ traumatic keywords to be or not to be narrated to the affected people in community-based studies. Thus, this study entails insightful concepts to the creation of a trauma narrative essential word because of its meaningful application. In conclusion, the article presents the keywords found to be associated closely with trauma narrative textbooks insights and proposes a coping alternative to the community or academia from a linguistics and communication management point of view.

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