A CORPUS-BASED STUDY ON THE EDUCATION-RELATED TED TALKS BETWEEN NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS

Autors/ores

  • Hieu Manh Do Department of English Language, Hong Bang International University, Vietnam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejfl.v5i3.3577

Paraules clau:

TED talks, AntConc, frequency word lists

Resum

This study aims to find out the frequency word lists in the TED talks in the education field as well as the comparison of the language used by native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS). The researcher collected four transcripts (two from NS and the others two from NNS) from the TED talks. AntConc is the main software that would be used to investigate the frequency word lists. Data collection includes two steps: (1) collecting the four transcripts of TED talks and (2) listing top 10, 20, and 100 frequency word lists of TED talks corpus of NS and NNS, separately. The findings found that both speakers usually use functional words more than content words. However, content words play a pivotal role in making a full meaning sentence.

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Biografia de l'autor/a

  • Hieu Manh Do, Department of English Language, Hong Bang International University, Vietnam
    Hieu Manh Do is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language at Hong Bang International University, Vietnam. He got MA TEFL at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan in 2019. His main interests include English for Specific Purposes (ESP), English for Academic Purposes (EAP), Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, and English Language Skills.

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2021-02-13

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Vol. 5 Núm. 3 (2021)

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