Toward Creating a Specialized Vocabulary List for Tourism Majors : Analysis of its Profile and Receptive Knowledge Among University Students
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This article reports preliminary results of a study aimed at creating a specialized English wordlist for tourism majors at universities, derived from a corpus that encompassed four different subfields (i.e., air travel, accommodation, travel firms and academic). First, the extracted EFT (English for Tourism) wordlist was analyzed in terms of its profile, specifically in relation to standard frequency lists (i.e., General Service Lists 1 & 2, and Academic Word List) as well as JACET 8000. It was found that about two-thirds of the vocabulary items in the EFT list were also considered important in general vocabulary learning, while the rest were highly technical items. Second, EFT vocabulary knowledge was investigated among university students with different levels of general vocabulary knowledge (N=131). Using vocabulary level tests, receptive knowledge of EFT and general vocabulary was measured in different frequency bands of JACET 8000. It was found that, although participants in different level-based groups showed varying levels of performance, their performance did not significantly differ on EFT and general vocabulary within the same frequency band. Then, the extracted items were classified based on their difficulty levels across the participant groups. Finally, implications for teaching EFT vocabulary are discussed.
- 2010-10-25