A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY NEEDS OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT A STATE UNIVERSITY IN TURKEY

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Science courses constitute a significant part of engineering faculties’ curriculum. This study is prompted by the need to establish the target needs of freshman engineering students at a state university with a focus on the lexical requirements of the science courses, which is believed to be valuable for curriculum or syllabus design, material development, as well as testing and assessment purposes. This study aims to generate a specialised list of lexical items using corpus frequency data derived from the textbooks used in the science courses. To this end, a corpus is compiled from the textbooks used in physics, chemistry, biology and calculus courses taken by the freshman engineering students, and keyness analysis is conducted on the corpus compiled. The corpus-derived list of keywords specific to science textbooks is then subject to expert opinion with regard to the usefulness of these lexical items for the engineering students. Employing subjective, qualitative data from interviews and questionnaires as well as objective, quantitative corpus data, the study offers a fine-grained, pedagogically convenient, corpus-derived specialised word list, comprising of 1195 lemmas, which is considered to be useful for the engineering students taking science courses at tertiary level.

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corpus, vocabulary, frequency, specialised word list, keywords

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Ş. Çiçek Demirci, “A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY NEEDS OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT A STATE UNIVERSITY IN TURKEY,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.