Is Intuition Enough When Choosing Vocabulary?

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概要

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• This paper outlines an analytical study whose purpose is to examine and critique the appropriateness of lexical choice in current mass market language textbooks for Japanese students. This study proceeds from the authors extensive use of textbooks which contained a large amount of low frequency vocabulary of questionable usefulness. This research project examined the tokens of the Cover to Cover textbook series, determining what percentage fell into the high frequency vocabulary realm, what words occurred as loan words in Japanese, and what words could be considered to be known to a majority of incoming university freshmen in Japan. The results proved that the writers intuition and experience were sufficient in that a large majority of tokens were high frequency items, but many low frequency vocabulary, loan words, and known words served as keywords, thus diminishing their educational value. Non-high frequency items were then addressed through various treatments to improve upon the overall validity of the texts.

著者

• Rogers James

  関西外国語大学国際言語学部

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