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Hitting the Lexical Keynote: A Textbook Vocabulary Load Analysis
Textbooks offer teachers guidance and support in their teaching and provide learners with a familiar lesson framework in learning. However, textbooks present many lexical, syntactic, and grammatical challenges for learners. This study investigates the lexical profile and vocabulary load of two popular university-assigned ELT textbooks. Upon the vocabulary analysis of each textbook and their subsequent units, the results show the lexical demands required for second language learners in ELT and Japanese tertiary-level programmes.
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Stuart Benson is an Associate Professor at the University of Aizu in Fukushima, Japan. He has taught in Japan and New Zealand. His areas of interest are ESP in non-university settings, vocabulary acquisition, and corpus linguistics. His current research investigates technical vocabulary in spoken rugby discourse.
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Naheen Madarbakus-Ring is a lecturer at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business in Japan. She has taught in South Korea, the UK and New Zealand. Naheen received her PhD in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington (NZ). Her research areas include listening strategies, curriculum and material development.