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Matinparsa H, Xodabande I, Ghafouri M, Atai M R. Academic Vocabulary in Applied Linguistics Research Articles: A Corpus-based Replication Study. LRR 2023; 14 (5) :199-221
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1- Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
2- Department of Foreign Languages, Kharazmi University, No. 43, Shahid Mofatteh Street, Tehran, Iran. , ismail.kh.tefl@gmail.com
3- Department of Foreign Languages, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
4- Department of Foreign Languages, Kharazmi University, No. 43, Shahid Mofatteh Street, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Foreign Languages, Kharazmi University, No. 43, Shahid Mofatteh Street, Tehran, Iran. , ismail.kh.tefl@gmail.com
3- Department of Foreign Languages, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
4- Department of Foreign Languages, Kharazmi University, No. 43, Shahid Mofatteh Street, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: (2897 Views)
With the global spread of English as the lingua franca for academic publishing, non-native researchers and university students are constantly facing linguistic barriers including insufficient vocabulary knowledge in writing for publication. This persistent need motivated the development of a good number of corpus-based word lists for frequently used academic and technical words in research articles across disciplines. Nevertheless, despite its importance in corpus-based study of language for word list development, replication research has received far less attention in this line of inquiry. The current study aimed to address this gap and replicated two published studies that investigated the use of academic vocabulary in applied linguistics research articles. To this end, research articles published from 2010 to 2020 in 20 well-known journals in the field were collected, and a corpus with around 48 million words was compiled and analyzed. The findings indicated that academic vocabulary accounted for 11.46% of the corpus, which is similar and close to the reported coverage of the AWL in replicated studies. However, regarding the frequently occurring academic and non-academic content words, the findings showed considerable variation with respect to the results reported earlier. In light of these findings, the study highlighted the importance of replication research to test the reliability of corpus-based vocabulary studies that developed field-specific academic word lists. Finally, the study developed an updated version for applied linguistics academic word list, that might be regarded as a resource and guide for the vocabulary learning component of the relevant EAP programs in the field.
Keywords: academic vocabulary, wordlist research, Applied Linguistics, replication research, research articles, EAP, ERPP
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