1 |
Exploring polysemy in the Academic Vocabulary List: a lexicographic study
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
2 |
Exploring polysemy in the Academic Vocabulary List: a lexicographic study
|
|
|
|
Abstract:
The Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) (Gardner & Davies, 2014) is a valuable resource for EAP teachers and students as it identifies potential lexical learning/teaching targets. This study enhances the AVL’s pedagogical usefulness by identifying polysemous lemmas in it. Polysemous AVL lemmas are operationalised as those with more than one definition in two lexicographic resources, the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learners' Dictionary and WordNet. This study also examines a theoretical issue, the relationship between the number of meaning senses of AVL lemmas and their frequency in an academic-English corpus. To this end, correlations were calculated between the numbers of AVL lemmas’ meaning definitions listed in both lexicographic resources and their frequency in the COCA-Academic corpus. 34.38% of the 2,673 AVL lemmas included in both lexicographic resources, excluding homonyms, are polysemous. Most (66.05%) come from the most frequent 1,000 AVL lemmas. The number of meaning definitions of AVL lemmas and their frequency are positively correlated. This correlation is non-linear, i.e., low-frequency words tend to be monosemous but beyond a frequency threshold, word definitions increase as word frequency increases. Implications for future research and teaching are discussed.
|
|
Keyword:
Cultures & Applied Linguistics (from 2021); Languages
|
|
URL: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/45432/ https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/45432/3/45432.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-english-for-academic-purposes
|
|
BASE
|
|
Hide details
|
|
3 |
Devising a discourse error tagging system for an English learner corpus.
|
|
Skoufaki, S. - : National Central University Press, 2013
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
4 |
Indexing second language vocabulary in the Intermediate GEPT
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
5 |
Formulaic language and pauses in the speech of Taiwanese learners of English.
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
6 |
An Exploratory Application of Rhetorical Structure Theory to Detect Coherence Errors in L2 English Writing: Possible Implications for Automated Writing Evaluation Software
|
|
Skoufaki, S. - : THe Association for Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing, 2009
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
7 |
Conceptual metaphoric meaning clues in two idiom presentation methods
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
8 |
Use of conceptual metaphors: A strategy for the guessing of an idiom’s meaning?
|
|
Skoufaki, S. - : Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University, 2005
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
9 |
The nature of phonological representations in children with Grammatical-specific language impairment
|
|
|
|
In: In: Hall, D and Markopoulos, T and Salamoura, A and Skoufaki, S, (eds.) (Proceedings) Proceedings of the CamLing First Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics. (pp. pp. 511-517). Cambridge Institute of Language Research: Cambridge. (2003) (2003)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
10 |
English Learner Corpus: Global Perspectives with an Asian Focus.
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
|