Luận văn lexical and morphological characteristics of english documents on information technology with implications in teaching esp at utehy

Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on Information technology at UTEIY This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morpholog

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI

UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

VACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES

DANG THI LOAN

LEXICAL AND MORPTIOLOGICAL CITARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH DOCUMENTS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

WITT] IMPLICATIONS IN TEACIIING ESP AT UTEITY

(Nhiing dic diém về mặt từ vựng và hình thái học của tài liệu Tiếng Anh

chuyên ngành Công Nghệ Thông Tin với sự ứng dụng trong giảng dạy Tiếng

Anh chuyên ngành tại Trường ĐIISP Kỹ thuật Hưng Yên)

M.A MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS

Ficld: English Linguistics

Code: 60 22 15

Hanoi, 2016

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI

UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES:

FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES

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DANG THI LOAN

LEXICAL AND MORPTIOLOGICAL CTTARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH DOCUMENTS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

WITIT IMPLICATIONS IN TEACTIING ESP AT UTEITY

(Những dặc điểm về mặt từ vựng và hình thái học của tài liệu Tiếng Ảnh

chuyên ngành Công Nghệ Thông Tin với sự ứng dụng trong giảng dạy Tiếng

Anh chuyên ngành tại Trường ĐIISP Kỹ thuật Hưng Yên.)

MA MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS

Ficld: English Linguistics

Code: 60 22 15

Supervisor: Tran Thi Thu Hién, MA

1lanoi, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LA Rationale .scsesisenstiesiestsnetntsistnneseests 1

1.3 Research questions .ssessesecnssstsesinneneets a2

1.6 Organtization of the stuly căn 23

CIIAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.2.1 Basie terminology with definitions of morphology „10

2⁄2.2.1 Inflaetion «cteeirrereie wl

2.2.2.2 Denvation - - - - 12

1.5 Scope of the study

Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools

However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation:

1.6 Organization of the study

The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices

Chapter 1: Intreduction

Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter

Chapter 2: — Literature Review

This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology

Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on

Information technology at UTEIY

This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY Main features

of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter

Chapter 4: Conclusions

This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios

vii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations

AWL : Academic Word List

EIT : English for Information Technology

ESP English for Specific Purposcs

GE : General Linglish

GSL : General Service List

UTEHY Universily o[Teelmical Eduention, Hưng Yen

academic words and how vocabularies should he taught So far, there have not been any

om EIT al UTEHY,

Mor these reasons, the author decides to carry out the study on lexical and morphological

characteristics of English documents on Information Technology with unplications

teaching ESP at UTEHY Hopetully, the thesis would bring concrete benefits to researchers, teachers, and students of I

1.2 Aims of the study

The inter-related aims of this thesis arc:

1 to find out ths lexical and morphological features of IT English texts, and

2 to draw implications in teaching ESP at UTEHY

1.4, Methods of the study

‘The study presents a theoretical background based on a number of materials on lexicology and morphology Next, to achieve the aims mentioned above, quantitative and qualitative incthods appropriate lo the corpus af linguistics ars used with the support of some tools, which are RANGE program (Nation, 2005), Simple Concordance Program (Reed, 1997- 2008), and especially, Chung and Nation’s (2003) four-point rating scale All of them are presented in deiail in chapler 3

academic words and how vocabularies should he taught So far, there have not been any

om EIT al UTEHY,

Mor these reasons, the author decides to carry out the study on lexical and morphological

characteristics of English documents on Information Technology with unplications

teaching ESP at UTEHY Hopetully, the thesis would bring concrete benefits to researchers, teachers, and students of I

1.2 Aims of the study

The inter-related aims of this thesis arc:

1 to find out ths lexical and morphological features of IT English texts, and

2 to draw implications in teaching ESP at UTEHY

1.4, Methods of the study

‘The study presents a theoretical background based on a number of materials on lexicology and morphology Next, to achieve the aims mentioned above, quantitative and qualitative incthods appropriate lo the corpus af linguistics ars used with the support of some tools, which are RANGE program (Nation, 2005), Simple Concordance Program (Reed, 1997- 2008), and especially, Chung and Nation’s (2003) four-point rating scale All of them are presented in deiail in chapler 3

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale

No one denies the importance of English language in the presen lime as global language Itis clear that English language has become more dominant around the world English is a means of communication between people of different cultures ‘This makes Lnglish widespread On the other hand, English is the language of seicnce and technelogy and most universities and institutes in the world use it in the fields of education

In Icaming English, a good mastery of vocabulary is csscntial for Icamers Without vocabulary, it is so difficult to convey anything, Pyles and Algeo (1970) noted that “when

we first think about the ianguage, we think about words It is words that we arrange logether lo mvike sentences, conversations and discourse of all kinds” In fact, vocabulary size is important to link the four skills of speaking, listermg, reading and writing all together Clearly, for leamers with specific goals, knowledge of the technical terms associated wilh a particular field of the study will be nee

ary, and this type af vocabulary

is an obvious focal point in any examination related to lexis of the scientific texts, Indeed, there may be a temptation to believe that a mastery of technical terms is all that is required

for success in ESP reading, in Praser (2005)

As such, vocabulary leaming and teaching is a central activity in the second language classroom, One of the potential vocabulary leaming strategies is the use of morphological knowledge to Ica vocabulary, With morphological awareness, Icamers arc able to learn complex words better by morphemes and morphemic boundaries

In the context of University of Technical Education, Hung Yen (UTEHY), general English

(GE) and English for Specific Purpose (HSP) are compulsory subjects, Students of II’ start

learning TIT al the begining of the second year Both leamers and teachers are coping with various difficulties in learning and teaching ESP, especially in technical vocabulary, inchiding the lack of field knowledge with numerous terms, complicated structures and countless exprassions, the insufliciency of teaching aids and refercnec material Meanwhile the teachers of ESP course need lo have a thorough understanding of the nature and the role of diffrent categories of words such as technical words, semi-technical words,

1.5 Scope of the study

Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools

However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation:

1.6 Organization of the study

The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices

Chapter 1: Intreduction

Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter

Chapter 2: — Literature Review

This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology

Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on

Information technology at UTEIY

This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY Main features

of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter

Chapter 4: Conclusions

This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios

1.5 Scope of the study

Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools

However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation:

1.6 Organization of the study

The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices

Chapter 1: Intreduction

Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter

Chapter 2: — Literature Review

This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology

Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on

Information technology at UTEIY

This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY Main features

of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter

Chapter 4: Conclusions

This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios

academic words and how vocabularies should he taught So far, there have not been any

om EIT al UTEHY,

Mor these reasons, the author decides to carry out the study on lexical and morphological

characteristics of English documents on Information Technology with unplications

teaching ESP at UTEHY Hopetully, the thesis would bring concrete benefits to researchers, teachers, and students of I

1.2 Aims of the study

The inter-related aims of this thesis arc:

1 to find out ths lexical and morphological features of IT English texts, and

2 to draw implications in teaching ESP at UTEHY

1.4, Methods of the study

‘The study presents a theoretical background based on a number of materials on lexicology and morphology Next, to achieve the aims mentioned above, quantitative and qualitative incthods appropriate lo the corpus af linguistics ars used with the support of some tools, which are RANGE program (Nation, 2005), Simple Concordance Program (Reed, 1997- 2008), and especially, Chung and Nation’s (2003) four-point rating scale All of them are presented in deiail in chapler 3

2.2.3 Compounding and blending - - - - 13

1.2 Classification of vocabulary of the corpus of ESP texts worsen „21

12.1 First 2,000 most frequent words in GSL - - - 22

3.1.2.3, Technical vocabulary and low frequency vecabulary - 25

3.1.3 Size of Ilechmical vocabulary in [ho ESP Ioxis 26

3.2.4, Compounding, blending and abbrzviation „33

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

A rating scale for finding technical words

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater] and by the researcher

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Inter-raler reliability accuracy score calculated by the muanber of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Coverage of texts by the various levels of vocabulary tokens and types by RANGE program

‘The most frequent words in word list 1 The most fequent words in word list 2 The most, frequent, words im werd list 3 The most fequent words in werd list 4 Size and different levels of the vocabulary throughout the corpus of texts The frequency of four levels of vocabulary in the corpus

The most frequent derivational suffixes in the corpus

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale

No one denies the importance of English language in the presen lime as global language Itis clear that English language has become more dominant around the world English is a means of communication between people of different cultures ‘This makes Lnglish widespread On the other hand, English is the language of seicnce and technelogy and most universities and institutes in the world use it in the fields of education

In Icaming English, a good mastery of vocabulary is csscntial for Icamers Without vocabulary, it is so difficult to convey anything, Pyles and Algeo (1970) noted that “when

we first think about the ianguage, we think about words It is words that we arrange logether lo mvike sentences, conversations and discourse of all kinds” In fact, vocabulary size is important to link the four skills of speaking, listermg, reading and writing all together Clearly, for leamers with specific goals, knowledge of the technical terms associated wilh a particular field of the study will be nee

ary, and this type af vocabulary

is an obvious focal point in any examination related to lexis of the scientific texts, Indeed, there may be a temptation to believe that a mastery of technical terms is all that is required

for success in ESP reading, in Praser (2005)

As such, vocabulary leaming and teaching is a central activity in the second language classroom, One of the potential vocabulary leaming strategies is the use of morphological knowledge to Ica vocabulary, With morphological awareness, Icamers arc able to learn complex words better by morphemes and morphemic boundaries

In the context of University of Technical Education, Hung Yen (UTEHY), general English

(GE) and English for Specific Purpose (HSP) are compulsory subjects, Students of II’ start

learning TIT al the begining of the second year Both leamers and teachers are coping with various difficulties in learning and teaching ESP, especially in technical vocabulary, inchiding the lack of field knowledge with numerous terms, complicated structures and countless exprassions, the insufliciency of teaching aids and refercnec material Meanwhile the teachers of ESP course need lo have a thorough understanding of the nature and the role of diffrent categories of words such as technical words, semi-technical words,

1.5 Scope of the study

Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools

However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation:

1.6 Organization of the study

The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices

Chapter 1: Intreduction

Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter

Chapter 2: — Literature Review

This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology

Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on

Information technology at UTEIY

This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY Main features

of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter

Chapter 4: Conclusions

This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale

No one denies the importance of English language in the presen lime as global language Itis clear that English language has become more dominant around the world English is a means of communication between people of different cultures ‘This makes Lnglish widespread On the other hand, English is the language of seicnce and technelogy and most universities and institutes in the world use it in the fields of education

In Icaming English, a good mastery of vocabulary is csscntial for Icamers Without vocabulary, it is so difficult to convey anything, Pyles and Algeo (1970) noted that “when

we first think about the ianguage, we think about words It is words that we arrange logether lo mvike sentences, conversations and discourse of all kinds” In fact, vocabulary size is important to link the four skills of speaking, listermg, reading and writing all together Clearly, for leamers with specific goals, knowledge of the technical terms associated wilh a particular field of the study will be nee

ary, and this type af vocabulary

is an obvious focal point in any examination related to lexis of the scientific texts, Indeed, there may be a temptation to believe that a mastery of technical terms is all that is required

for success in ESP reading, in Praser (2005)

As such, vocabulary leaming and teaching is a central activity in the second language classroom, One of the potential vocabulary leaming strategies is the use of morphological knowledge to Ica vocabulary, With morphological awareness, Icamers arc able to learn complex words better by morphemes and morphemic boundaries

In the context of University of Technical Education, Hung Yen (UTEHY), general English

(GE) and English for Specific Purpose (HSP) are compulsory subjects, Students of II’ start

learning TIT al the begining of the second year Both leamers and teachers are coping with various difficulties in learning and teaching ESP, especially in technical vocabulary, inchiding the lack of field knowledge with numerous terms, complicated structures and countless exprassions, the insufliciency of teaching aids and refercnec material Meanwhile the teachers of ESP course need lo have a thorough understanding of the nature and the role of diffrent categories of words such as technical words, semi-technical words,

academic words and how vocabularies should he taught So far, there have not been any

om EIT al UTEHY,

Mor these reasons, the author decides to carry out the study on lexical and morphological

characteristics of English documents on Information Technology with unplications

teaching ESP at UTEHY Hopetully, the thesis would bring concrete benefits to researchers, teachers, and students of I

1.2 Aims of the study

The inter-related aims of this thesis arc:

1 to find out ths lexical and morphological features of IT English texts, and

2 to draw implications in teaching ESP at UTEHY

1.4, Methods of the study

‘The study presents a theoretical background based on a number of materials on lexicology and morphology Next, to achieve the aims mentioned above, quantitative and qualitative incthods appropriate lo the corpus af linguistics ars used with the support of some tools, which are RANGE program (Nation, 2005), Simple Concordance Program (Reed, 1997- 2008), and especially, Chung and Nation’s (2003) four-point rating scale All of them are presented in deiail in chapler 3

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale

No one denies the importance of English language in the presen lime as global language Itis clear that English language has become more dominant around the world English is a means of communication between people of different cultures ‘This makes Lnglish widespread On the other hand, English is the language of seicnce and technelogy and most universities and institutes in the world use it in the fields of education

In Icaming English, a good mastery of vocabulary is csscntial for Icamers Without vocabulary, it is so difficult to convey anything, Pyles and Algeo (1970) noted that “when

we first think about the ianguage, we think about words It is words that we arrange logether lo mvike sentences, conversations and discourse of all kinds” In fact, vocabulary size is important to link the four skills of speaking, listermg, reading and writing all together Clearly, for leamers with specific goals, knowledge of the technical terms associated wilh a particular field of the study will be nee

ary, and this type af vocabulary

is an obvious focal point in any examination related to lexis of the scientific texts, Indeed, there may be a temptation to believe that a mastery of technical terms is all that is required

for success in ESP reading, in Praser (2005)

As such, vocabulary leaming and teaching is a central activity in the second language classroom, One of the potential vocabulary leaming strategies is the use of morphological knowledge to Ica vocabulary, With morphological awareness, Icamers arc able to learn complex words better by morphemes and morphemic boundaries

In the context of University of Technical Education, Hung Yen (UTEHY), general English

(GE) and English for Specific Purpose (HSP) are compulsory subjects, Students of II’ start

learning TIT al the begining of the second year Both leamers and teachers are coping with various difficulties in learning and teaching ESP, especially in technical vocabulary, inchiding the lack of field knowledge with numerous terms, complicated structures and countless exprassions, the insufliciency of teaching aids and refercnec material Meanwhile the teachers of ESP course need lo have a thorough understanding of the nature and the role of diffrent categories of words such as technical words, semi-technical words,

vii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations

AWL : Academic Word List

EIT : English for Information Technology

ESP English for Specific Purposcs

GE : General Linglish

GSL : General Service List

UTEHY Universily o[Teelmical Eduention, Hưng Yen

2.2.3 Compounding and blending - - - - 13

1.2 Classification of vocabulary of the corpus of ESP texts worsen „21

12.1 First 2,000 most frequent words in GSL - - - 22

3.1.2.3, Technical vocabulary and low frequency vecabulary - 25

3.1.3 Size of Ilechmical vocabulary in [ho ESP Ioxis 26

3.2.4, Compounding, blending and abbrzviation „33

1.5 Scope of the study

Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools

However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation:

1.6 Organization of the study

The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices

Chapter 1: Intreduction

Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter

Chapter 2: — Literature Review

This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology

Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on

Information technology at UTEIY

This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY Main features

of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter

Chapter 4: Conclusions

This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios

vii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations

AWL : Academic Word List

EIT : English for Information Technology

ESP English for Specific Purposcs

GE : General Linglish

GSL : General Service List

UTEHY Universily o[Teelmical Eduention, Hưng Yen

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

A rating scale for finding technical words

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater] and by the researcher

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Inter-raler reliability accuracy score calculated by the muanber of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Coverage of texts by the various levels of vocabulary tokens and types by RANGE program

‘The most frequent words in word list 1 The most fequent words in word list 2 The most, frequent, words im werd list 3 The most fequent words in werd list 4 Size and different levels of the vocabulary throughout the corpus of texts The frequency of four levels of vocabulary in the corpus

The most frequent derivational suffixes in the corpus

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

A rating scale for finding technical words

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater] and by the researcher

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Inter-raler reliability accuracy score calculated by the muanber of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Coverage of texts by the various levels of vocabulary tokens and types by RANGE program

‘The most frequent words in word list 1 The most fequent words in word list 2 The most, frequent, words im werd list 3 The most fequent words in werd list 4 Size and different levels of the vocabulary throughout the corpus of texts The frequency of four levels of vocabulary in the corpus

The most frequent derivational suffixes in the corpus

vii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations

AWL : Academic Word List

EIT : English for Information Technology

ESP English for Specific Purposcs

GE : General Linglish

GSL : General Service List

UTEHY Universily o[Teelmical Eduention, Hưng Yen

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3.2.5 Conclusion - - - - 34 CHAPTER 4: CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

A rating scale for finding technical words

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater] and by the researcher

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Inter-raler reliability accuracy score calculated by the muanber of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Coverage of texts by the various levels of vocabulary tokens and types by RANGE program

‘The most frequent words in word list 1 The most fequent words in word list 2 The most, frequent, words im werd list 3 The most fequent words in werd list 4 Size and different levels of the vocabulary throughout the corpus of texts The frequency of four levels of vocabulary in the corpus

The most frequent derivational suffixes in the corpus

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale

No one denies the importance of English language in the presen lime as global language Itis clear that English language has become more dominant around the world English is a means of communication between people of different cultures ‘This makes Lnglish widespread On the other hand, English is the language of seicnce and technelogy and most universities and institutes in the world use it in the fields of education

In Icaming English, a good mastery of vocabulary is csscntial for Icamers Without vocabulary, it is so difficult to convey anything, Pyles and Algeo (1970) noted that “when

we first think about the ianguage, we think about words It is words that we arrange logether lo mvike sentences, conversations and discourse of all kinds” In fact, vocabulary size is important to link the four skills of speaking, listermg, reading and writing all together Clearly, for leamers with specific goals, knowledge of the technical terms associated wilh a particular field of the study will be nee

ary, and this type af vocabulary

is an obvious focal point in any examination related to lexis of the scientific texts, Indeed, there may be a temptation to believe that a mastery of technical terms is all that is required

for success in ESP reading, in Praser (2005)

As such, vocabulary leaming and teaching is a central activity in the second language classroom, One of the potential vocabulary leaming strategies is the use of morphological knowledge to Ica vocabulary, With morphological awareness, Icamers arc able to learn complex words better by morphemes and morphemic boundaries

In the context of University of Technical Education, Hung Yen (UTEHY), general English

(GE) and English for Specific Purpose (HSP) are compulsory subjects, Students of II’ start

learning TIT al the begining of the second year Both leamers and teachers are coping with various difficulties in learning and teaching ESP, especially in technical vocabulary, inchiding the lack of field knowledge with numerous terms, complicated structures and countless exprassions, the insufliciency of teaching aids and refercnec material Meanwhile the teachers of ESP course need lo have a thorough understanding of the nature and the role of diffrent categories of words such as technical words, semi-technical words,

2.2.3 Compounding and blending - - - - 13

1.2 Classification of vocabulary of the corpus of ESP texts worsen „21

12.1 First 2,000 most frequent words in GSL - - - 22

3.1.2.3, Technical vocabulary and low frequency vecabulary - 25

3.1.3 Size of Ilechmical vocabulary in [ho ESP Ioxis 26

3.2.4, Compounding, blending and abbrzviation „33

1.5 Scope of the study

Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools

However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation:

1.6 Organization of the study

The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices

Chapter 1: Intreduction

Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter

Chapter 2: — Literature Review

This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology

Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on

Information technology at UTEIY

This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY Main features

of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter

Chapter 4: Conclusions

This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

A rating scale for finding technical words

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater] and by the researcher

Inter-valer reliability accuracy score calculated by the number of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Inter-raler reliability accuracy score calculated by the muanber of words assigned to four levels by the rater 2 and by the researcher

Coverage of texts by the various levels of vocabulary tokens and types by RANGE program

‘The most frequent words in word list 1 The most fequent words in word list 2 The most, frequent, words im werd list 3 The most fequent words in werd list 4 Size and different levels of the vocabulary throughout the corpus of texts The frequency of four levels of vocabulary in the corpus

The most frequent derivational suffixes in the corpus

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3.2.5 Conclusion - - - - 34 CHAPTER 4: CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

2.2.3 Compounding and blending - - - - 13

1.2 Classification of vocabulary of the corpus of ESP texts worsen „21

12.1 First 2,000 most frequent words in GSL - - - 22

3.1.2.3, Technical vocabulary and low frequency vecabulary - 25

3.1.3 Size of Ilechmical vocabulary in [ho ESP Ioxis 26

3.2.4, Compounding, blending and abbrzviation „33

1.5 Scope of the study

Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools

However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation:

1.6 Organization of the study

The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices

Chapter 1: Intreduction

Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter

Chapter 2: — Literature Review

This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology

Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on

Information technology at UTEIY

This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY Main features

of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter

Chapter 4: Conclusions

This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations

AWL : Academic Word List

EIT : English for Information Technology

ESP English for Specific Purposcs

GE : General Linglish

GSL : General Service List

UTEHY Universily o[Teelmical Eduention, Hưng Yen

2.2.3 Compounding and blending - - - - 13

1.2 Classification of vocabulary of the corpus of ESP texts worsen „21

12.1 First 2,000 most frequent words in GSL - - - 22

3.1.2.3, Technical vocabulary and low frequency vecabulary - 25

3.1.3 Size of Ilechmical vocabulary in [ho ESP Ioxis 26

3.2.4, Compounding, blending and abbrzviation „33

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations

AWL : Academic Word List

EIT : English for Information Technology

ESP English for Specific Purposcs

GE : General Linglish

GSL : General Service List

UTEHY Universily o[Teelmical Eduention, Hưng Yen