VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES DANG THI LOAN LEXICAL AND MORPTIOLOGICAL CITARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH DOCUMENTS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WITT] IMPLICATIONS IN TEACIIING ESP AT UTEITY (Nhiing dic diém về mặt từ vựng và hình thái học của tài liệu Tiếng Anh chuyên ngành Công Nghệ Thông Tin với sự ứng dụng trong giảng dạy Tiếng Anh chuyên ngành tại Trường ĐIISP Kỹ thuật Hưng Yên) M. MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Ficld: English Linguistics Code: 60. 15 Hanoi, 2016 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES. DANG THI LOAN LEXICAL AND MORPTIOLOGICAL CTTARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH DOCUMENTS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WITIT IMPLICATIONS IN TEACTIING ESP AT UTEITY (Những dặc điểm về mặt từ vựng và hình thái học của tài liệu Tiếng Ảnh chuyên ngành Công Nghệ Thông Tin với sự ứng dụng trong giảng dạy Tiếng Anh chuyên ngành tại Trường ĐIISP Kỹ thuật Hưng Yên.
MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS Ficld: English Linguistics Code: 60. 15 Supervisor: Tran Thi Thu Hién, MA 1lanoi, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES. Aims of the study 2 1.
Methods of the study. Seape of the study 3 1. Organtization of the stuly. căn 23 CIIAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.
Words and lexemes. Word types, word tokens and word families - - - 9 2. Am overview af morphology 10 2. Basie terminology with definitions of morphology.
Inflection and derivation. Scope of the study Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools. However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation: 1. Organization of the study The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices Chapter 1: Intreduction Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study.
Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter Chapter 2: — Literature Review This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study. It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology. Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on Information technology at UTEIY This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY. Main features of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter.
Chapter4: Conclusions This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviations AWL : Academic Word List EIT : English for Information Technology ESP English for Specific Purposcs GE : General Linglish GSL : General Service List UTEHY Universily o[Teelmical Eduention, Hưng Yen academic words and how vocabularies should he taught. So far, there have not been any om EIT al UTEHY, Mor these reasons, the author decides to carry out the study on lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on Information Technology with unplications teaching ESP at UTEHY. Hopetully, the thesis would bring concrete benefits to researchers, teachers, and students of I 1. Aims of the study The inter-related aims of this thesis arc: 1.
to find out ths lexical and morphological features of IT English texts, and 2. to draw implications in teaching ESP at UTEHY.3, Research questions In order to find and analyse lexical and morphological characteristics of the texts of English on Information Technology, the thesis raises a question: 1. What are the lexical and morphological characteristics of the texts of English on Information Technology? 1.4, Methods of the study ‘The study presents a theoretical background based on a number of materials on lexicology and morphology. Next, to achieve the aims mentioned above, quantitative and qualitative incthods appropriate lo the corpus af linguistics ars used with the support of some tools, which are RANGE program (Nation, 2005), Simple Concordance Program (Reed, 1997- 2008), and especially, Chung and Nation’s (2003) four-point rating scale.
All of them are presentedin deiail in chapler 3 academic words and how vocabularies should he taught. So far, there have not been any om EIT al UTEHY, Mor these reasons, the author decides to carry out the study on lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on Information Technology with unplications teaching ESP at UTEHY. Hopetully, the thesis would bring concrete benefits to researchers, teachers, and students of I 1. Aims of the study The inter-related aims of this thesis arc: 1.
to find out ths lexical and morphological features of IT English texts, and 2. to draw implications in teaching ESP at UTEHY.3, Research questions In order to find and analyse lexical and morphological characteristics of the texts of English on Information Technology, the thesis raises a question: 1. What are the lexical and morphological characteristics of the texts of English on Information Technology? 1.4, Methods of the study ‘The study presents a theoretical background based on a number of materials on lexicology and morphology. Next, to achieve the aims mentioned above, quantitative and qualitative incthods appropriate lo the corpus af linguistics ars used with the support of some tools, which are RANGE program (Nation, 2005), Simple Concordance Program (Reed, 1997- 2008), and especially, Chung and Nation’s (2003) four-point rating scale.
All of them are presentedin deiail in chapler 3 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale No one denies the importance of English language in the presen lime as global language Itis clear that English language has become more dominant around the world. English is a means of communication between people of different cultures. ‘This makes Lnglish widespread.
On the other hand, English is the language of seicnce and technelogy and most universities and institutes in the world use it in the fields of education. In Icaming English, a good mastery of vocabulary is csscntial for Icamers. Without vocabulary, it is so difficult to convey anything, Pyles and Algeo (1970) noted that “when we first think about the ianguage, we think about words. It is words that we arrange logether lo mvike sentences, conversations and discourse of all kinds”.
In fact, vocabulary size is important to link the four skills of speaking, listermg, reading and writing all together. Clearly, for leamers with specific goals, knowledge of the technical terms associated wilh a particular field of the study will be nee ary, and this type af vocabulary is an obvious focal point in any examination related to lexis of the scientific texts, Indeed, there may be a temptation to believe that a mastery of technical terms is all that is required for success in ESP reading, in Praser (2005) As such, vocabulary leaming and teaching is a central activity in the second language classroom, One of the potential vocabulary leaming strategies is the use of morphological knowledge to Ica vocabulary, With morphological awareness, Icamers arc able to learn complex words better by morphemes and morphemic boundaries. In the context of University of Technical Education, Hung Yen (UTEHY), general English (GE) and English for Specific Purpose (HSP) are compulsory subjects, Students of II’ start learning TIT al the begining of the second year. Both leamers and teachers are coping with various difficulties in learning and teaching ESP, especially in technical vocabulary, inchiding the lack of field knowledge with numerous terms, complicated structures and countless exprassions, the insufliciency of teaching aids and refercnec material.
Meanwhile the teachers of ESP course need lo have a thorough understanding of the nature and the role of diffrent categories of words such as technical words, semi-technical words, 1. Scope of the study Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools. However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation: 1. Organization of the study The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices Chapter 1: Intreduction Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study.
Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter Chapter 2: — Literature Review This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study. It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology. Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on Information technology at UTEIY This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY. Main features of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter.
Chapter4: Conclusions This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios 1. Scope of the study Limitations in the case of minor study mean that it is not feasible to carry out all of the levels of linguistic analysis, ‘Ihe study only analyzes ten texts of KIT to find out their lexical and morphological characteristics, becanse lexical and morphological features of ESP can be analyzed under the same method with the same group of analysis tools. However, the researcher focuses mainly on lexical features, and only general morphological characteristics of the corpus such as inflection and affixation: 1. Organization of the study The thesis consists of four chapters, references and appendices Chapter 1: Intreduction Thus chapter presents rationale, scope, and objectives of the study.
Research methods, research questions and organization of the thesis are also given clearly in this chapter Chapter 2: — Literature Review This chapler provides fundamental and thgorelical coneepls relaled lo the purpose of the study. It deals with theories of lexicon and morphology. Chapter 3: Lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on Information technology at UTEIY This chapter not only investigates lexical items but alse presents morphological features of FIT documents used al UTEHY. Main features of lexical and general morphological characteristics are also indicated in this chapter.
Chapter4: Conclusions This final chapter gives the overall answers for the research questions of the study, implications for teaching and leaming of ESP, especially EIT, and some suggestions for furthor studios academic words and how vocabularies should he taught. So far, there have not been any om EIT al UTEHY, Mor these reasons, the author decides to carry out the study on lexical and morphological characteristics of English documents on Information Technology with unplications teaching ESP at UTEHY. Hopetully, the thesis would bring concrete benefits to researchers, teachers, and students of I 1. Aims of the study The inter-related aims of this thesis arc: 1.
to find out ths lexical and morphological features of IT English texts, and 2. to draw implications in teaching ESP at UTEHY.3, Research questions In order to find and analyse lexical and morphological characteristics of the texts of English on Information Technology, the thesis raises a question: 1. What are the lexical and morphological characteristics of the texts of English on Information Technology? 1.4, Methods of the study ‘The study presents a theoretical background based on a number of materials on lexicology and morphology. Next, to achieve the aims mentioned above, quantitative and qualitative incthods appropriate lo the corpus af linguistics ars used with the support of some tools, which are RANGE program (Nation, 2005), Simple Concordance Program (Reed, 1997- 2008), and especially, Chung and Nation’s (2003) four-point rating scale.
All of them are presentedin deiail in chapler 3 2. Compounding and blending - - - - 13 2.