Inter-textual Vocabulary Growth Patterns for Marine Engineering English
Inter-textual Vocabulary Growth Patterns for Marine Engineering English作者机构：Donghua University China The Ministry of Education Dalian Maritime University China
出 版 物：《当代外语研究》 (Contemporary Foreign Language Studies)
年 卷 期：2011年第12期
页 面：45-59页
摘 要：This paper explores two fundamental issues concerning the inter-textual vocabulary growth patterns for Marine Engineering English,*** growth models and newly occurring vocabulary distributions in cumulative *** the basis of the DMMEE(Dalian Maritime University Marine Engineering English)corpus,four mathematical models(Brunet s, Guiraud s,Tuldava s,and Herdan s models)are tested against the empirical vocabulary growth curve for Marine Engineering English.A new growth model based on the logarithmic function and the power law is *** theoretical mean vocabulary size and the 95% upper and lower bound values are calculated and plotted as functions of the sample *** significant in explicit EFL teaching and learning,the new growth model can make accurate estimates not only on the vocabulary size and its intervals for a given textbook but also on the volume of texts that are needed to produce a particular vocabulary size.
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