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Ontario High School Science Word List (Ohswl), Mohamed Mahfouz
Ontario High School Science Word List (Ohswl), Mohamed Mahfouz
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This research aims to explain the development of an Ontario High School Science Corpus and subsequently an Ontario High School Science Word List (OHSWL). The OHSWL is a list of the most frequent technical words in the Ontario high school science curriculum. The science corpus was compiled from Ontario science textbooks and public written lecture material. A total of 803 lemmas were identified as part of the OHSWL. The coverage of the OHSWL in the science corpus vs non-science corpus is 7.79% and 1.52% respectively. The high frequency vocabulary (top 3,000 words) of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) …
Incidental Learning Of L2 Technical Vocabulary Through Repeated Reading Of Academic Texts, Yuning Wang
Incidental Learning Of L2 Technical Vocabulary Through Repeated Reading Of Academic Texts, Yuning Wang
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This is a case study investigating the effect of repeated reading of academic texts on incidental learning of L2 technical vocabulary. The impact of factors such as frequency of encounters and pictorial contexts on incidental learning of L2 technical vocabulary was also examined. Five adult EAP students were required to read academic texts from different disciplines multiple number of times. Participants’ vocabulary gains in receptive knowledge of form-meaning connection and productive knowledge of written form were measured. The results indicated that repeated reading of academic texts promotes incidental learning of L2 technical vocabulary. However, it is also necessary to be …