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| Title: | 流行歌曲的詞彙量要求與台灣高中單字教學之分析
The analysis of lexical demand of English pop songs for teaching vocabulary in Taiwan senior high schools |
| Authors: | 施冠任
Shih, Guan-Ren |
| Contributors: | 余明忠
Yu, Ming-Chung
施冠任
Shih, Guan-Ren |
| Keywords: | 單字
語料庫
歌詞
歌曲
Vocabulary
Corpus
Lyrics
Song |
| Date: | 2019 |
| Issue Date: | 2019-02-12 15:39:45 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | 字彙能力在外語學習上面一直被認為是不可或缺的要素，尤其在英語為外語的情境之下更顯重要。在眾多學習單字的策略方法中，使用流行音樂的歌詞來進行學習也越來越普遍。然而，歌詞即使在外語字彙學習上有著不可或缺的位置，很少學術相關研究把重點放在台灣大學入學考試7,000單字以及西洋流行樂歌詞的關係上面。
因此本研究把主要重點放在大學入學考試7,000 單字是否和英語流行音樂的歌詞有密切的關係。此外研究者也想知道在7,000單字的六級字彙分類中，哪一級程度的單字最常被使用在西洋流行音樂的歌詞裡以及在各六級分類中，每一級別常被使用在歌詞裡的單字為哪些。
為了進行此研究得知結果，此研究從兩個歌詞語料庫中各挑500首西洋流行音樂歌曲，合計1,000首來當作實驗數據。另外，7,000單字分級表也從大考中心網站裡下載來進行實驗分析。在收集且準備好所需要的資料後，語料庫RANGE被拿來使用進行資料的數據分析。
從分析結果得知，7,000單字裡超過一半的字彙都有被涵蓋在歌詞裡面。這表示台灣大學入學考試7,000單字和流行音樂的歌詞有著密切的關係。除了研究7,000單字和歌詞的關係，本研究也得知分級較低的單字如第一級到第三級的單字較常被使用在流行音樂的歌詞裡。不過，分級較高的部分像是第4級到第6級的單字就鮮少被運用在歌詞當中。另外，此研究也列出各級別中最常出現的10個單字當作教學參考。
Vocabulary knowledge has been widely recognized as an important factor in language learning and teaching, especially in EFL settings. Among all the vocabulary learning strategies, using the lyrics of pop music to acquire a foreign language is one of the most common approaches to learning vocabulary. Although learning foreign language via pop songs is of great aid to vocabulary learning, little research has been conducted to examine the relationship between the words in lyrics and vocabulary included in teaching materials designed for senior high school students in Taiwan, such as word-level list. The word-level list is used to teach Taiwanese senior high school students vocabulary in the hope of letting them perform well on the college entrance examination and become familiar with the target language.
Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the lyrics of the selected pop music and the word-level list. A second goal is to find out which level in the word-level list is covered the most in the lyrics, and what vocabulary is often used by songwriters.
The present study focused on 1,000 pop songs selected from two different corpora and the researcher downloaded the word-level list from a website called College Entrance Examination Center. After the researcher collected and prepared all of them, one program called RANGE was used to analyze and compare the texts in both of the lyrics of the selected pop songs and the word-level list.
The results showed that 54.76% of the vocabulary from the word-level list was covered in the lyrics of the selected pop songs. This means that the vocabulary from the word-level list is often used in the lyrics of the selected pop music. In addition to the first finding, the present study also found that lower level words in the word-level list, i.e. levels 1, 2 and 3 are commonly used in the lyrics. In contrast, higher level words from levels 4-6 are less covered in the lyrics of the selected pop songs. Also, for each level in the word-level list, this study showed the top 10 high-frequency words in each level respectively. Last but not least, this study found that language teachers could use the lyrics of pop songs to teach and improve students’ vocabulary knowledge. |
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| Description: | 碩士
國立政治大學
英國語文學系
104551019 |
| Source URI: | http://thesis.lib.nccu.edu.tw/record/#G0104551019 |
| Data Type: | thesis |
| DOI: | 10.6814/THE.NCCU.ENG.003.2019.A09 |
| Appears in Collections: | [英國語文學系] 學位論文
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