This volume provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its
relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and teaching. Focussing on …

The Academic Word List 10 Years On: Research and Teaching Implications Page 1 TEACHING
ISSUES The TESOL Quarterly publishes brief commentaries on aspects of English language …

This study investigated (a) the lexical demands of academic spoken English and (b) the
coverage of the Academic Word List (AWL) in academic spoken English. The researchers …

This corpus-based study had two main aims: a) to develop a list of academic words used
frequently in chemistry research articles (RAs) for EFL chemistry students, and b) to compare …

This study discusses the necessity of creating field-specific academic word lists and seeks to
establish the compilation criteria and the validity test criteria for field-specific academic word …

The chapter begins with an examination of definitions of specialized or technical vocabulary
and moves on to different approaches to conceptualizing vocabulary and English for specific …

The coverage of academic lexis is compared in a TED talk corpus (2,483 talks, 5,068,781
words) and a corpus of Yale University lectures (708 lectures, 5,523,791 words). Academic …

Given the importance of specialized vocabulary in scientific communication and academic
discourse, there is a growing need to create wordlists to address the vocabulary-learning …

中国学生英语学术写作中身份语块的语料库研究 Page 1 2011 年第3 期 《中国英语教育》 No. 3,
2011 总第33 期 English Education in China Serial No. 33 1 中国学生英语学术写作中身份语块 …

Scientific communication can be represented as a continuum with the research article,
addressed to specialized researchers, at one end of the spectrum, and with the …