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Abstract To investigate the suitability of TED talks for academic listening in EAP contexts, this research paper compares Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) representation ( Gardner & Davies, 2014 ), lexical… Click to show full abstract
Abstract To investigate the suitability of TED talks for academic listening in EAP contexts, this research paper compares Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) representation ( Gardner & Davies, 2014 ), lexical density, and speech rate in a TED talk corpus and a lecture discourse corpus, which were both compiled for this study. 28 lecture series (727 lectures total) and 49 TED talks were analysed for AVL representation. TED talks were found to have lower AVL representation than the university lectures (t(75) = 4.95, p
Keywords:
ted talks;
suitable ted;
talks academic;
avl representation;
academic listening
Journal Title: Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Year Published: 2017
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