Identifying Key Vocabulary in Ecology Textbooks for ESP

A Corpus-Based Keyword Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID22048645
AuthorsJelena M Josijević Mitić (0000-0002-2960-6482, University of Kragujevac), Jelena M Mladenović (0000-0002-0597-116X, University of Kragujevac)
Year2026
Volume16
Issue3
Pages479
Publication date2026-03-20
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducation Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2227-7102 • E-ISSN: 2227-7102
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/educsci16030479
OpenAlexW7138937532
LanguageEN
References cited45

On one hand, the University of Kragujevac, Serbia, needs an ESP course in ecology; on the other hand, the available wordlists do not meet fully meet the needs of the target group of students, i.e., the undergraduate ecology students. This discrepancy served the a main incentive for creating an institution-specific word list of key content words found in a corpus compiled from English-medium textbooks intended for ecology students (here referred to as the Eco-Text corpus). The keyword list was generated in AntConc, with a keyness measure threshold automatically set at p

Controlled vocabulary · Incentive · Vocabulary · Word lists by frequency · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Animal and Plant Science Education · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

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