LEXICAL LOADS OF MATHEMATICA DISCOURSE FOR YOUNG LEARNERS: A STEP TOWARDS VOCABULARY EVALUATION OF MULTISEMIOTIC DISCOURSE

  • Ton Nu My Nhat
Keywords: lexical coverage, mathematic discourse, multisemiotic discourse, vocabulary size, word frequency

Abstract

This study was an attempt to examine the vocabulary demands of the
mathematic discourse (MD) written for young learners (YLs). The data for this research
were two sets of books - one for the Vietnamese learners of English as a foreign language
(L2) and one for the Singaporean learners of English as a first language (L1). To find out
more about the lexical profiles of this genre, a total of 1,729 mathematic problems from
two series of four books for primary school children, consisting of 15,545 running words,
were analyzed to determine the vocabulary size necessary for comprehension and the
potential to learn vocabulary incidentally through doing mathematics in English. The
article concludes with a discussion of pedagogical implications of this study for material
designers and teachers of MD for YLs.

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Published
2020-08-17