Characteristic Words in a Football Magazine:
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- TSUCHIYA Yuto
- Graduate Student, Meiji University
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- YAMAMOTO Hiroki
- Shinshu University
書誌事項
- タイトル別名
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- A Corpus Study for ESP Material Development
説明
<p>Even though English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has recently received notable attention in English language education, ESP material development has not progressed sufficiently except in a few fields. One of the under-researched fields is ESP for sports fans. This study attempts to uncover characteristic words in a football (soccer) magazine by utilizing a corpus and to reveal the words that learners wishing to gain football-related information in English should learn. To achieve this goal, a characteristic word list from a football magazine corpus created by the authors was compared with the vocabulary list of the New JACET 8000, a norm frequency vocabulary list for English learners in Japan. Consequently, 472 characteristic words in a football magazine were identified and 169 words that readers of English football magazines in Japan are recommended to learn were determined. These words included football terms (e.g., winger), words commonly used in sports (e.g., defender), words related to winning or losing (e.g., defeat), words related to medical care and body parts (e.g., injury), transfer market words (e.g., loan), business words (e.g., partnership), and words to describe performances of teams and players (e.g., stunning).</p>
収録刊行物
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- JACET関東支部紀要
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JACET関東支部紀要 12 (0), 84-103, 2025-03-31
一般社団法人 大学英語教育学会関東支部
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詳細情報 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390303719447427840
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- ISSN
- 24361993
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- 本文言語コード
- en
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- データソース種別
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- JaLC
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- 抄録ライセンスフラグ
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