| Title : | Corpus linguistics and the gendered vocabulary of business ESP students. A corpus - based study : doctoral studies-third cycle | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Juliana Çyfeku, Dissertant ; Agim Poshka, Thesis advisor | | Publisher: | Tetovë : Fakulteti i Biznesit dhe Ekonomisë - UEJL | | Publication Date: | 2015 | | Pagination: | 223 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 30 cm | | General note: | Includes bibliographical references
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Includes index | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Abstract: | Abstract
This study builds on previous research using worldwide known research instruments; the SILL-questionnaire (Strategy Inventory for Language Learning, Oxford, 1990) and the implementation of corpora and their specific tools (Compleat Lexical Tutor sites, Cobb, 2000) to process students' argumentative essay writings to allow investigation for individual and gendered group responses. The instruments were administered to a total of 84 freshman students at the Economic Department, "Fan. S. Noli" University in Korea, Albania evolving relatively; N = 50 Females and N = 34 Males. A Placement Test was employed since the beginning of the academic year 2013-2014 to divide the students into Pre-intermediate and Intermediate proficiency groups. The present research study is both qualitative and quantitative as it gathered the data through ethnographic means. The SILL-questionnaire provided scalar responses at the individual level relating strategy use to gender and L2 proficiency. Based on the data collection, comparisons of respective controlled groups' findings revealed greater use of language learning strategies by more successful learners and higher levels of strategy use by both genders; and that the more proficient the gendered students were, the higher the similarities rather than differences reported to be. In addition, the quantitative data elicited from the argumentative essay processions, lent themselves to descriptive statistics such as: percentage, ratio, mean score, frequency, standard deviation as well as to inferential statistical-T Test. The analysis of the findings determined that the relationships between background (the independent variables) such as gender and proficiency in L2 (English) and the outcomes (dependent variables) such as scores and ratings were not random, but significant. Overall data indicated that male and female business students acknowledged that learning English with corpus activities can increase the efficacy of ESP language learning. The outmost data yield that male students were affected and enacted from the new vocabulary software in a higher degree than female students. Regardless, gender variations the number of AWL words entered by overall Intermediate students exceeded the number of vocabulary selected and employed by Pre-intermediate students.
Hardly any significant differences (independent samples t-tests,p < .05) were found between the overall Intermediate male and female students' results; which controverted those of Pre-intermediate male and female students'. This group results reported mostly differences versus proficiency and conventional writing measures revealing thus significant data on: sentence output (Mean score, Standard Deviation, and Frequency of content words). Keywords: Strategy, ESP vocabulary, gender, corpora, frequency, argumentative essay | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=18108 |
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Corpus linguistics and the gendered vocabulary of business ESP students. A corpus - based study / Juliana Çyfeku
