Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective
Vocabulary learning is one of the challenging tasks in a foreign language classroom. In order to make this process motivating and friendly, one of the useful techniques is to unburden the teacher and to provide the learners with maximum autonomy. Graves (2007) asserts that EFL learners should have the vocabulary size of approximately 3,000 to 6,000 English words. The undertaken study is an attempt in this regard to determine the breadth of the EFL vocabulary at secondary level. A corpus of Pakistani English has been compiled in this regard. In order to process data, Wordsmith Tools, a statistical method for analyzing corpus data, has been used to retrieve the frequency list. Afterwards, the results have been analysed with SPSS. The findings establish the fact that the determining the breadth of vocabulary with the help of corpus is very significant in developing EFL vocabulary at secondary level.
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Corpus; frequency list; EFL; learning strategies; vocabulary.
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(1) Shamim Akhter
Researcher,Department of English, Institute of Southern Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Behzad Anwar
Assistant Professor,Department of English,University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Abrar Hussain Qureshi
Associate Professor,Department of English Institute of Southern Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Akhter, S., Anwar, B., & Qureshi, A. H. (2019). Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective. Global Regional Review, IV(IV), 105-112. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).12
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CHICAGO : Akhter, Shamim, Behzad Anwar, and Abrar Hussain Qureshi. 2019. "Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective." Global Regional Review, IV (IV): 105-112 doi: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).12
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HARVARD : AKHTER, S., ANWAR, B. & QURESHI, A. H. 2019. Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective. Global Regional Review, IV, 105-112.
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MHRA : Akhter, Shamim, Behzad Anwar, and Abrar Hussain Qureshi. 2019. "Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective." Global Regional Review, IV: 105-112
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MLA : Akhter, Shamim, Behzad Anwar, and Abrar Hussain Qureshi. "Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective." Global Regional Review, IV.IV (2019): 105-112 Print.
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OXFORD : Akhter, Shamim, Anwar, Behzad, and Qureshi, Abrar Hussain (2019), "Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective", Global Regional Review, IV (IV), 105-112
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TURABIAN : Akhter, Shamim, Behzad Anwar, and Abrar Hussain Qureshi. "Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective." Global Regional Review IV, no. IV (2019): 105-112. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).12