In the current study keyness is used to identify the essential lexicon and lexical patterns needed to study history at school, considering the out-of-school input to which a young learner is exposed to. Two frequency-ordered lists have been compiled. The first frequency list, from a corpus of history textbooks used in lower secondary schools in Italy, called CoMaS (Corpus di Manuali di Storia), indicates the words that a teenager should know in order to study history at school. The latter, compiled from a corpus of Italian spoken language, called LIP (Lessico di Frequenza dell’ Italiano Parlato) specifies words mostly used in daily communication. The comparison of the most frequent words of the textbook corpus with the oral corpus has been carried out by using the key word component of Wordsmith Tools n.5.
General spoken language and school language: Key words and discourse patterns in history textbooks
LEONE, PAOLA
2010-01-01
Abstract
In the current study keyness is used to identify the essential lexicon and lexical patterns needed to study history at school, considering the out-of-school input to which a young learner is exposed to. Two frequency-ordered lists have been compiled. The first frequency list, from a corpus of history textbooks used in lower secondary schools in Italy, called CoMaS (Corpus di Manuali di Storia), indicates the words that a teenager should know in order to study history at school. The latter, compiled from a corpus of Italian spoken language, called LIP (Lessico di Frequenza dell’ Italiano Parlato) specifies words mostly used in daily communication. The comparison of the most frequent words of the textbook corpus with the oral corpus has been carried out by using the key word component of Wordsmith Tools n.5.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
