A Corpus-Based Study of TOEIC Listening Vocabulary for Developing TOEIC Listening Word List for the Listening Exam
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The objectives of this research to study the types and levels of vocabulary found in the TOEIC English test (Listening Part) and to select the words found and present them as a set of vocabulary for preparing English teaching materials. Vocabulary resources were English TOEIC tests from three books is Barron's TOEIC Practice Exam, Kaplan's TOEIC Listening and Reading Prep Plus, and Longman Preparation Series for the New TOEIC Test-More Practice Tests. The Listening Part sections of each of these textbooks was analyzed using corpus-based research tools. These tools were the concordance package (Concordance: AntConc) and the VocabProfile program, which helped to classify vocabulary lists. Additionally, word lists were constructed based on the findings discussed in Laufer (1989) in which a lexical coverage of 95% was considered necessary to ensure comprehension. The research results revealed that the total number of content words across the three textbooks was 3,987. The majority of these terms appear in the General Word List (GSL), and the average CEFR vocabulary difficulty level is B1. Furthermore, following the 95% criteria, a total of 3,788-word lists were obtained from the 3,987 content words. Vocabulary lists have been classified into 2,229 General Vocabulary (GSL), 382 Academic Vocabulary (AWL), and 1,177 OWL-OFF LIST, and the majority of these lists have been assigned a B1 level. These vocabulary lists can be used for developing content for English language teaching materials, and for developing word games that learners can use to develop their vocabulary knowledge according to the types of vocabulary or CEFR difficulty level.
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