Vocabulary Profile of the Abstracts Written by Students Majoring in Linguistics, Literature, and Cultural Studies: A Comparative Analysis

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10.2991/soshec-19.2019.65How to use a DOI?

Keywords

General Service List; Academic Word List; technical words; low-frequency words; types; tokens

Abstract

Vocabulary profile can be used to identify the uniqueness of certain texts among sub-genres. In this study, some types of vocabularies are examined. The study aimed at identifying vocabulary profile consisting of General Service List (GSL) and Academic Word List (AWL) in three different sub-genres of English major. This study used a qualitative method in identifying the elaboration on frequency of GSL and AWL as well as the dominant words emerging in 30 thesis abstracts. The thesis abstracts were retrieved from Linguistics, Cultural Studies, and Literature sub-genres. Only abstracts with A or AB score published from 2015 to 2016 were used. Based on types and tokens of GSL, it was found that Linguistics and Literature have higher number than Cultural Studies. For overall GSL, Linguistics covers more GSL compared to the other two sub-genres. One of reasons to this case is because there are many plural forms of the same words used in the texts. In terms of AWL, Cultural Studies posseses the highest number of AWL. It is because of the objects and scope of the sub-genres. In conclusion, among three sub-genres studied, Linguistics has the highest number of GSL meanwhile Cultural Studies are dominant for the AWL. The study gives implications to the writing skill for a specific text by considering types of words used.

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AU  - Imamatul Khair
AU  - Ahmad Faris Firdaws S
AU  - Risky Amalia Ramdhani
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - Vocabulary Profile of the Abstracts Written by Students Majoring in Linguistics, Literature, and Cultural Studies: A Comparative Analysis
BT  - Proceedings of the Social Sciences, Humanities and  Education Conference (SoSHEC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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