A Corpus-based Contrastive Study on Academic Vocabulary of RA Abstracts in Applied Linguistics

Yue Li Wang

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.631-632.1442

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A Corpus-based Contrastive Study on Academic Vocabulary of RA Abstracts in Applied Linguistics

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The study sought to compare the occurrence frequency of academic vocabulary in abstracts written by experts and Chinese undergraduates by investigating 60 RA abstracts in applied linguistics. The results show that the coverage of AWL is similar in the abstracts written by these two groups of writers, however, different preferences of academic vocabulary are detected in their abstracts. The findings have significant pedagogical implications for novice writers’ abstracts wording in applied linguistics.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 631-632)

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September 2014

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Yue Li Wang

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Academic Vocabulary, Applied Linguistics, Authorial Variation, Ra Abstracts

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