A Corpus-based Study of English Vocabulary in Art Research Articles
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https://doi.org/10.18533/journal.v6i8.1255Keywords:
Art Majors, English Teaching, High Frequency Words, Word List.Abstract
The learning of English as a foreign language is an additional burden for art majors. This study aimed to examine high frequency words in art research articles to improve the efficiency of art majors’ English learning, especially their academic reading and writing. For this aim, the study built a corpus, analyzed data from art research articles and compared data with three base word lists. We found that the General Service List (GSL) and the Academic Word List (AWL) had a high coverage in our corpus, and there was a different high frequency word order in the Art Research Article Corpus (ARAC). These findings provide some implications for teaching English for art majors.
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