Corpus creation and lexical profile analysis

Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v6i9.2666

Beini HE

Xingzhi Primary School

Abstract

In the context of L2 teaching classroom, instructors' prime role in vocabulary instruction is to teach words and help specific learners make meaningful progress in lexical development. A great deal of planning and preparation needs to occur before teachers enter the classroom (Webb & Nation, 2017), among which the process of evaluating the appropriateness of texts, materials and assignments based on teachers and learners' current vocabulary level seems to be necessary [11]. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a detailed procedure in which instructors evaluate a certain text using the data of Compleat Lexical Tutor and determine whether it is a suitable language learning material for students who have mastered the most frequent 2,000 words, thereby conducting further lexical profile analysis.

Keywords

L2 teaching classroom; vocabulary learning; lexical profile analysis; Compleat Lexical Tutor

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