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Publication Date: 2016
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EFL Textbooks for Young Learners: A Comparative Analysis of Vocabulary
Nordlund, Marie
Education Inquiry, v7 n1 p47-68 2016
This article reports the findings of a comparative analysis of two English teaching course book series which are widely used in school years 4-6 in Sweden: Good Stuff and New Champion. The analysis comprises comparisons of the vocabulary component in the teaching materials and examines the extent to which words -- adjectives, nouns and verbs -- recur in the books, whether there is a common core of words in the two series and, finally, whether vocabulary in the two teaching materials corresponds with accepted measures of English high-frequency words. The study shows that variation in vocabulary is considerable in individual books, within a series and between the two series; all textbooks contain a high proportion of one-time and low-frequency words. As a result, it is difficult to pin down a common core vocabulary. The study further shows that even though many words do correspond to general high-frequency words, as much as one-third are not found among the 2,000 most frequent English words.
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Word Frequency, Textbooks, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Content Analysis, Instructional Materials, Form Classes (Languages), Nouns, Verbs, Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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