A corpus-based study on social media english lexicon: comprenhensibility in ESL and EFL students
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A corpus-based study on social media english lexicon: comprenhensibility in ESL and EFL studentsAuthor (s)
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Edo-Marzá, Nuria; Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosDate
2017Publisher
Universitat Jaume IAbstract
The current status of English as ‘lingua franca’ acquired throughout the
last two centuries, as well as the development and rise of Internet and social
media have originated the emergence of a new kind of language ... [+]
The current status of English as ‘lingua franca’ acquired throughout the
last two centuries, as well as the development and rise of Internet and social
media have originated the emergence of a new kind of language with a
particular and characteristic vocabulary: Social Media English Lexicon
(SMEL). Nowadays, the majority of the world population uses social
networks, but most people utilize this genre without being really aware of its
linguistic peculiarities. As this sort of genre is not taught at schools, SMEL
understandability among non-native English speakers seems an interesting
research gap to be filled by studies like this one. Therefore, the purpose of
this paper is to analyse the level of comprenhensibility of SMEL among EFL
and ESL students and to compare it. In order to fulfil this aim, Twitter has
been the social medium selected to create a corpus based on SMEL. Once all
the data have been compiled, a questionnaire has been created and
administered to a human sample of EFL and ESL students who met the
established requirements. Frequency analyses revealed that both groups of
participants can understand this English genre although ESL students’
comprenhensibility level is better because of their English proficiency level.
Surprisingly, context does not seem to play a much relevant role in
comprehensibility among the EFL group. In addition, none of the groups
acknowledges the need or desire to study this kind of English at schools,
since they believe it would negatively affect their written language
competence in English. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938. Curs acadèmic: 2016/2017
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