Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective

Shamim Akhter, Behzad Anwar and Abrar Hussain Qureshi
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Shamim Akhter: Researcher,Department of English, Institute of Southern Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan.
Behzad Anwar: Assistant Professor,Department of English,University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
Abrar Hussain Qureshi: Associate Professor,Department of English Institute of Southern Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan.

Global Regional Review, 2019, vol. 4, issue 4, 105-112

Abstract: Vocabulary learning is one of the challenging tasks in a foreign language classroom. In order to make this process motivating and friendly, one of the useful techniques is to unburden the teacher and to provide the learners with maximum autonomy. Graves (2007) asserts that EFL learners should have the vocabulary size of approximately 3,000 to 6,000 English words. The undertaken study is an attempt in this regard to determine the breadth of the EFL vocabulary at secondary level. A corpus of Pakistani English has been compiled in this regard. In order to process data, Wordsmith Tools, a statistical method for analyzing corpus data, has been used to retrieve the frequency list. Afterwards, the results have been analysed with SPSS. The findings establish the fact that the determining the breadth of vocabulary with the help of corpus is very significant in developing EFL vocabulary at secondary level.

Keywords: Corpus; frequency list; EFL; learning strategies; vocabulary. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).12

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