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研究生: 黃羿萍
Huang, Yi-Ping
論文名稱: 以語料庫為本探討為一般聽眾與第二外語學習者設計播客之字彙涵蓋量與內容難度
A Corpus-based Study on the Lexical Coverage and Text Difficulty of English Podcasts for General Audience and ESL/EFL Learners
指導教授: 陳浩然
Chen, Hao-Jan
口試委員: 陳浩然
Chen, Hao-Jan
王宏均
Wang, Hung-Chun
戴孜伃
Tai, Tzu-Yu
口試日期: 2024/04/29
學位類別: 碩士
Master
系所名稱: 英語學系
Department of English
論文出版年: 2024
畢業學年度: 112
語文別: 英文
論文頁數: 100
中文關鍵詞: 英文播客字彙涵蓋量內容難度
英文關鍵詞: English podcast, lexical coverage, text difficulty
研究方法: 次級資料分析
DOI URL: http://doi.org/10.6345/NTNU202400822
論文種類: 學術論文
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  • CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background of the Study 1 1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Study 6 1.3 Research Questions 12 CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 13 2.1 Challenges to Comprehend Authentic Audio Input 13 2.2 Text Difficulty and Listening Comprehension 18 2.2.1 Linguistic Difficulty on Comprehension 19 2.2.2 Speech Rate on ESL/EFL Listening Comprehension 21 2.3 Lexical Coverage and Comprehension 24 2.3.1 Coverage Necessary for Adequate Comprehension 25 2.3.2 Lexical Profile of Different Learning Materials 29 2.4 Summary of Chapter Two 39 CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY 41 3.1 Materials 41 3.1.1 Corpus Data 41 3.1.2 BNC/COCA Frequency Word Family List 44 3.2 Instruments 46 3.2.1 AntWordProfiler 46 3.2.2 Text Inspector 49 3.3 Procedure 51 CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 56 4.1 Text Difficulty Level of Podcast 56 4.1.1 Result of General Audience (GA) Podcast 56 4.1.2 Result of English Language Purpose (ELP) Podcast 60 4.1.3 Discussion of Text Difficulty of GA and ELP Podcast 63 4.2 Required Vocabulary Size in Reaching Adequate Comprehension 66 4.1.1 Lexical Coverage of General Audience (GA) Podcast 66 4.1.2 Lexical Coverage of English Learning Purpose (ELP) Podcast 71 4.1.3 Discussion of Vocabulary Size Needed for GA and ELP Podcast 77 4.3 Discussion on the Linguistic Difficulty of GA and ELP Podcast 82 CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION 86 5.1 Summary of Major Findings 86 5.2 Pedagogical Implication 89 5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Future Studies 92 Reference 94

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