Vocabulary input in EFL textbooks: frequency levels

• Autores: Gema Alcaraz Mármol
• Localización: A survey of corpus-based research / coord. por Pascual Cantos Gómez, Aquilino Sánchez Pérez, 2009, ISBN 978-84-692-2198-3, págs. 771-783
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Despite the current plethora of corpora studies concerning language teaching, we find comparatively few regarding the analysis of didactic materials. The present study aims at comparing vocabulary input of a Primary Education coursebook against General English from the British National Corpora. Results are discussed both from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. A considerable part of the vocabulary analysed falls out of the 2000 most frequent words in General English. Furthermore, the semantic fields that dominate the didactic units try to adapt to the functional language required by the children's specific communicative context. Therefore, the study confirms that communication needs of children are afforded a greater weight than frequency criteria.