Zipfian interpretation of textbook vocabulary lists: comments on Xiao <italic style="font-style: italic">et al</italic>.'s <italic style="font-style: italic">Corpus</italic>-<italic style="font-style: italic">based research on English word recognition</italic><italic style="font-style: italic">rates in primary school and word selection strategy</italic>

Qiong HU; Ming YUE

doi:10.1631/FITEE.1700418

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Zipfian interpretation of textbook vocabulary lists: comments on Xiao et al.'s Corpus-based research on English word recognitionrates in primary school and word selection strategy

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- Zipfian interpretation of textbook vocabulary lists: comments on Xiao et al.'s Corpus-based research on English word recognitionrates in primary school and word selection strategy
- 用齐夫定律解读教材词表--评Xiao et al. (2017)《基于语料库的小学英语认识率及教材选词策略研究》
- Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering Vol. 18, Issue 7, Pages: 863-866(2017)
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  Department of Linguistics, Zhejiang University, China
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  Ming YUE, E-mail: yueming@zju.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1631/FITEE.1700418
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- Published：2017-07
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Qiong HU, Ming YUE. Zipfian interpretation of textbook vocabulary lists: comments on Xiao et al.'s Corpus-based research on English word recognitionrates in primary school and word selection strategy[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2017, 18(7): 863-866.
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Qiong HU, Ming YUE. Zipfian interpretation of textbook vocabulary lists: comments on Xiao et al.'s Corpus-based research on English word recognitionrates in primary school and word selection strategy[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2017, 18(7): 863-866. DOI： 10.1631/FITEE.1700418.

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Xiao

et al.

(2017)在对比分析4个语料库的基础上，提出国内小学六年级学生的识词率增长不能令人满意的观点，建议人教版小学英语通用教材总词汇在原有726个的基础上再增加903个，并删除twelfth（序数词，第十二）这样的低频词。作为外语教师和语言学家，我们赞同他们应用先进信息技术对传统词表进行评估的做法，但认为这项工作：1.在构建参考语料库时需重视语料抽样的合理性；2.在解读词频时需重视齐夫定律（Zipf’s law，即英语词频与词秩成反比）的作用--识字率增长随词汇量增加而减缓的情况是合理的；3.在提出教材选词策略时，需考虑小学生认知特点和课业负担等现实因素限制，以及语言教育的总体目标，不能随便删除twelfth这样承载文化的词汇；4.学龄儿童全国通用外语教材编写是项复杂的系统工程，需要各领域专家共同关注。

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Zipfian interpretation of textbook vocabulary lists: comments on Xiao et al.'s Corpus-based research on English word recognitionrates in primary school and word selection strategy

DOI：10.1631/FITEE.1700418

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