Developing a Textbook-Based Academic Turkish Wordlist

dc.authorid DOLMACI, MUSTAFA/0000-0002-2503-6072
dc.authorwosid DOLMACI, MUSTAFA/B-5598-2017
dc.contributor.author Dolmaci, Mustafa
dc.contributor.author Ertas, Abdullah
dc.contributor.other Department of English Language and Literature
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T14:29:32Z
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dc.date.issued 2016
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp [Dolmaci, Mustafa] Selcuk Univ, Konya, Turkey; [Ertas, Abdullah] Atilim Univ, Ankara, Turkey en_US
dc.description DOLMACI, MUSTAFA/0000-0002-2503-6072 en_US
dc.description.abstract Vocabulary knowledge is solid bedrock, upon which other language skills can be built. Wilkins (1972) asserted that "without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed". Since the pioneering research of Michael West (1953), many academic or general wordlists have been published in English or in other languages. On the other hand, the lack of an Academic Turkish Wordlist which meets the academic criteria such as being collected from a valid corpus has made this research necessary in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. This study aims to investigate the academic vocabulary that any Turkish language learner should have before starting to study at undergraduate programs offering Turkish medium instruction. An academic corpus derived from fifty-seven textbooks was formed so as to discover the Academic Turkish Wordlist. There were 4032442 tokens in the academic corpus and various computer software programs some of which were written for the current study were used in order to acquire the academic wordlist. Lemmas, or the groups of lexical forms with the same stem that belong to the same word class, (Francis & Kucera, 1982) were used for the creation of the Academic Turkish Wordlist. Moreover, the most frequent 11000 words from Turkish National Corpus were used to make a list of words to be excluded from the academic corpus and the final version of the Academic Turkish Wordlist contained 1010 lemmas. The Academic Turkish Wordlist covered 32% of the academic corpus and it is evident that knowing the words in the academic wordlist will help undergraduate foreign students studying Turkish improve their academic language skills, especially reading comprehension. The Academic Turkish Wordlist could be utilized in various ways: 1) to check out language learning materials in order to find out how many low/high frequency words they contain 2) to compare students' writings in terms of how many academic words they are able to use 3) to prepare proficiency exams 4) to revise their language program in order to include more academic words to prepare their students for undergraduate programs. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd. en_US
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dc.identifier.doi 10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.10.111
dc.identifier.endpage 827 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1877-0428
dc.identifier.startpage 821 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.10.111
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/531
dc.identifier.volume 232 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000387499800109
dc.institutionauthor Ertaş, Abdullah
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier Science Bv en_US
dc.relation.ispartof International Conference on Teaching and Learning English as an Additional Language (GlobELT) -- APR 14-17, 2016 -- Antalya, TURKEY en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences
dc.relation.publicationcategory Konferans Öğesi - Uluslararası - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.subject Academic wordlist en_US
dc.subject corpus en_US
dc.subject lemma en_US
dc.subject Turkish vocabulary en_US
dc.title Developing a Textbook-Based Academic Turkish Wordlist en_US
dc.type Conference Object en_US
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