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BREADTH OF EFL VOCABULARY BUILDING AT SECONDARY LEVEL IN PAKISTAN A CORPUS BASED PERSPECTIVE

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).12      10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).12      Published : Dec 2019

Breadth of EFL Vocabulary Building at Secondary Level in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Perspective

Abstract

    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.

    Corpus; frequency list; EFL; learning strategies; vocabulary.

    (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

    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

CHICAGO

    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

HARVARD

    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.

MHRA

    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

MLA

    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.

OXFORD

    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

TURABIAN

    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