Análisis del léxico de aprendices de inglés de cuarto de secundaria en e-mails
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Universidad de La Rioja
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ISSN: 1988-7701
Año de publicación: 2012
Volumen: 5
Número: 9
Tipo: Artículo
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This study aims at identifying the frequency, number of types and tokens, and the types of words used by 44 Spanish students in their last year of Secondary Education (4th ESO) to describe people their same age as well as traditional festivals in the UK by means of an e-mail exchange with native speakers based on e-mail tandem. The texts written by the students were edited electronically and processed with the vocabulary analysing programmes Frequency and Range to test (i) the number of types and tokens, (ii) the types of words used by the students (i.e. nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs), and (iii) to classify these tokens and types according to the three lists of most frequently used words in English proposed by Nation (http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/staff/paul-nation.aspx). The results show that (i) nouns are the most frequently used types of words, followed by verbs; (ii) nouns belong to the semantic field of family and free time and (iii) most of the tokens and types used are included in list 1, although more than half of the students are able to use at least one type included in list 3.
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