The vocabulary of food in EFL learners� compositions

  1. Ojeda Alba, Julieta 1
  2. Jiménez Catalán, Rosa María 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Revista:
Cauce: Revista Internacional de Filología, Comunicación y sus Didácticas

ISSN: 0212-0410 2603-8560

Año de publicación: 2009

Número: 32-33

Páginas: 307-320

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Cauce: Revista Internacional de Filología, Comunicación y sus Didácticas

Resumen

Vocabulary plays an essential role in successful foreign language learning as shown in a great number of vocabulary studies. Likewise, the importance of food in the shaping of culture and language has been acknowledged in sociolinguistics. In this paper we look at the vocabulary implemented by EFL learners in a writing task. Our results show the recurrent, though unprompted, presence of food-related vocabulary. Participants have produced vocabulary pertaining to a number of different lexical fields, yet from no other topic has been elicited a greater variety of types than from that related to food. A comparison of the figures by gender suggests that females use more terms related to food than their male counterparts. A qualitative analysis of lexical units reveals that food vocabulary is becoming increasingly more �foreign� in EFL learners

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