Productive Vocabulary Development in EFL Writing: A Corpus-based Study

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10.2991/emcm-15.2016.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English writing; Productive vocabulary; Corpus; Longitudinal study

Abstract

Based on a self-built corpus, the present research carries out a longitudinal study method, which explores the developmental tendency of productive vocabulary in English writing from the aspect of lexical frequency profile and the lexical complexity of vocabulary breadth. The study examines the final examination compositions of 30 tertiary English majors in the first six semesters with the method of Lexical Frequency Profile. The study result indicates that the development of lexical complexity in productive vocabulary breath presents a straight-line progress, it does not exist the plateau phenomenon during the development of productive vocabulary.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Changzhong Shao
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TI  - Productive Vocabulary Development in EFL Writing: A Corpus-based Study
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronics, Mechanics, Culture and Medicine
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 123
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SN  - 2352-538X
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