SPORT NEWS VOCABULARY INVESTIGATION FOR ESP CLASSROOMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT SCIENCE
Keywords:
Corpus Linguistics, Word List, Sports NewsAbstract
This paper investigates sports news text in order to ascertain a useful word list for physical education and sport science students. A Sports News Corpus was compiled for this study. The Sports News Corpus consists of 12 newspapers written in English with a total 3,571,501 running words. This sports news was collected every day in their electronic version from 1 October 2018 – 30 November 2018. The 12 newspaper agencies included: Sporting News, The Independent Sport, ABC News, BBC Sports, CNN, ESPN, Fox Sport USA, Fox Sport, Guardian Sport, Sky Sport, The Daily Telegraph, and US News. The newspapers were chosen based on their electronic availability and open access. The selected newspapers originated in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Australia. Apart from GSL and AWL, the results reveal that students should be familiar with 3,043 word families in order to comprehend sports news. The 3,043 word families, can be categorized into 3 types which are words with common meanings but do not appear frequently in general contexts, words that appear common but include specialized meanings, and words with specialized meanings.
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