A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF LEXICAL COLLOCATIONS OF KEYWORDS FOUND IN ONLINE BUSINESS NEWS ARTICLES

Auteurs

  • Krittat Sukman Faculty of Liberal Arts, North Bangkok University, Thailand
  • Wanpiya Triwatwaranon Faculty of Liberal Arts, North Bangkok University, Thailand
  • Tiwphai Munkongdee Faculty of Liberal Arts, North Bangkok University, Thailand
  • Narawan Chumnumnawin Faculty of Liberal Arts, North Bangkok University, Thailand

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejel.v7i3.4275

Trefwoorden:

collocations, keyword lists, business news, corpus analysis

Samenvatting

Business news articles are crucial for Business English students since they provide a rich source for learning vocabulary in their field of study and professional communication. This study investigates lexico-grammatical items specific to a specialised corpus of online business news reports. Its overall aim is twofold: 1) to generate a keywords list extracted from the self-built corpus; and 2) to identify lexical collocations of the first ten keywords. Seven hundred online business news articles from BBC news.com were compiled to build a corpus of business news. The data were analysed by the application of Antconc 3.5.9 developed by Anthony (2020). The results derived from the present study through a corpus-based analysis uncovered a list of keywords which were frequently used in online business news where the majority of the keywords were nouns (63.51%), verbs/nouns (8%), adjectives (7%), adjectives/nouns (4%), adverbs (2%), and verb (1%). From the selected top one hundred keywords, the lexical collocations of each keyword were identified with 3 combination types based on the set framework adapted from Benson et al.’s (2010). The obtained combination types include Adjective+Noun (40%), Noun+Noun (35%), and Noun+Verb (20%), respectively. The pedagogical implications and recommendations for future research were also discussed.

 

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Biografieën auteurs

  • Krittat Sukman, {$affiliation)

    Krittat Sukman is a lecturer of TESOL at Faculty of Liberal Arts, North Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand. He obtained his master’s degree in English Language Teaching from Assumption University, Thailand. He also earned a post-graduate certificate in Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Currently, he is doing his PhD in English Language Teaching at Thammasat University, Thailand. His areas of interest include corpus linguistics, language teaching methodology, and Global Englishes.

  • Wanpiya Triwatwaranon, {$affiliation)

    Wanpiya Triwatwaranon is a lecturer of Business English at Faculty of Liberal Arts, North Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand. He holds two master’s degrees; one is in English for Professional Development from National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand and the other is in International Business at Brunel University London, UK. His research interests are business communication and English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

  • Tiwphai Munkongdee, {$affiliation)

    Tiwphai Munkhongdee is a lecturer of Business English at Faculty of Liberal Arts, North Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand. He receives his master’s degree in English for Professions from Rangsit University, Thailand. His specialisation lies in translation studies and English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

  • Narawan Chumnumnawin, {$affiliation)

    Narawan Chumnumnawin is a lecturer of Global Business English at Faculty of Liberal Arts, North Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand. She receives a master’s degree in Translation in Education and Business from King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand. Her area of expertise includes translation studies and business communication.

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2022-05-04

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Vol 7 Nr 3 (2022)

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