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Nurmukhamedov, Ulugbek; Sharakhimov, Shoaziz – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
In addition to movies, television programs, and TED Talks presentations, podcasts are an increasingly popular form of media that promotes authentic public discourse for diverse audiences, including university professors and students. However, English language teachers in the English as a second language/English as a foreign language contexts might…
Descriptors: Speeches, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hsu, Wenhua – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
Schmitt and Schmitt (2014) labelled the first 4,000 to 9,000 word families as mid-frequency vocabulary and highlighted its essential nature based on Nation's (2006) estimate that knowledge of the first 9,000 word families would provide 98% coverage of various texts. To attain this goal, this study first measured the vocabulary level of Voice of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), News Reporting, Programming (Broadcast)