Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Using glossaries to increase the lexical coverage of television programs. |
| Authors: |
Webb, Stuart1 stuart.webb@vuw.ac.nz |
| Source: |
Reading in a Foreign Language. Apr2010, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p201-221. 21p. 10 Charts. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Vocabulary, *Comprehension, *Foreign language education, *Lexicology, Language glossaries, vocabularies, etc., Television programs, Linguistic input |
| Abstract: |
This study examined the extent to which glossaries may affect the percentage of known words (coverage) in television programs. The transcripts of 51 episodes of 2 television programs (House and Grey's Anatomy) were analyzed using Range (Heatley, Nation, & Coxhead, 2002) to create glossaries consisting of the low-frequency (less frequent than the 3,000 word level) word families that were encountered 10 or more times in each program. The results showed that coverage of the glossaries was 1.31% for Grey's Anatomy and 2.26% for House. This was greater than coverage of the 3,001-4,000 most frequent word families in both programs. The cumulative coverage including the glossaries at the 3,000 word level increased to 96.00% for House and 97.20% for Grey's Anatomy. The findings indicate that glossaries have the potential to improve comprehension of television programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
