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Direct linkHsu, Wenhua – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2020
Schmitt and Schmitt (2014) labeled the first 4000 to 9000 word families as mid-frequency words and stressed their importance based on Nation's (2006) estimate that for adequate comprehension of a variety of authentic texts, knowledge of the first 9000 word families is necessary. Subsequent to this vocabulary goal is to determine what can be read…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Conferences (Gatherings), Transcripts (Written Records), Reading Materials
Download full textHsu, Wenhua – Journal of English Teaching, 2023
This research was prompted by the phenomenon of binge-watching Korean television series (K-drama) amongst college students in Taiwan, where English as a foreign language (EFL) is a required course. The researcher-teacher sought to create a pedagogically useful list of the frequent semantically non-compositional multi-word expressions (MWEs) for…
Descriptors: Korean, Drama, Television, Programming (Broadcast)
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)
Hsu, Wenhua – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
English-medium instruction (EMI) is gaining popularity among EFL higher education institutions. However, not all EMI programs provide the same English immersion as those in the Anglosphere. The researcher targeted English medium university textbooks as a research focus, since they are first and foremost learning material of specialist knowledge…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Computational Linguistics
Hsu, Wenhua – Journal of English Teaching, 2021
English-medium instruction (EMI) has become a nationwide trend in Taiwan's higher education institutions. Behind this rapid growth is the widespread belief that EMI provides English immersion, which facilitates incidental learning of the target language. However, not all EMI programs in EFL contexts provide the same immersion as those in the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Bridging the Vocabulary Gap for EFL Medical Undergraduates: The Establishment of a Medical Word List
Hsu, Wenhua – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This study created a medical word list (MWL) to bridge the gap between non-technical and technical vocabulary. The researcher compiled a corpus containing 155 textbooks across 31 medical subject areas from e-book databases (totaling 15 million running words) and examined the range and frequency of words outside the most frequent 3,000-word…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Medical Education
