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A Corpus Study of English Language Exam Texts: Vocabulary Difficulty and the Impact on Students' Wider Reading (Or Should Students Be Reading More Texts by Dead White Men?)
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Beverley Jennings; Daisy Powell; Sylvia Jaworska; Holly Joseph – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
Students in England sit an important gateway examination in English at age 16. Major changes were made to this exam in 2017 resulting in more emphasis on the comprehension of unseen literary texts. This paper uses corpus linguistic methods to identify the kind of vocabulary encountered in these exam texts and compares it to the kind of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension