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Selecting Television Programs for Language Learning: Investigating Television Programs from the Same Genre
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Webb, Stuart – International Journal of English Studies, 2011
The scripts of 288 television episodes were analysed to determine the extent to which vocabulary reoccurs in television programs from the same subgenres and unrelated television programs from different genres. Episodes from two programs from each of the following three subgenres of the American drama genre: medical, spy/action, and criminal…
Descriptors: Television, Scripts, Classification, Morphemes
Vocabulary Demands of Television Programs
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Webb, Stuart; Rodgers, Michael P. H. – Language Learning, 2009
This study investigated vocabulary coverage and the number of encounters of low-frequency vocabulary in television programs. Eighty-eight television programs consisting of 264,384 running words were categorized according to genre. Television shows were classified as either British or American and then put into the following genres: news, drama,…
Descriptors: Nouns, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Television