Wenhua Hsu

I-Shou University · Centre for General Education

Schmitt and Schmitt (2014) labeled the first 4000 to 9000 word families as mid-frequency words and stressed their importance based on Nation's (2006) estimate that for adequate comprehension of a variety of authentic texts, knowledge of the first 9000 word families is necessary. Subsequent to this vocabulary goal is to determine what can be read ex...

This research describes an attempt to establish a pedagogically useful list of the most frequent semantically non-compositional multi-word combinations for English for Journalism learners in an EFL context, who need to read English news in their field of study. The list was compiled from the NOW (News on the Web) Corpus, the largest English news da...

This research set out to examine the vocabulary used in English-medium traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) textbooks and aimed to establish a TCM English word list (EWL) as a reference for English for Chinese Medicine purposes. The researcher built a 13-million-token TCM Textbook Corpus and measured the vocabulary levels of the books from within alo...

Schmitt and Schmitt (2014) labelled the first 4,000 to 9,000 word families as mid-frequency vocabulary and highlighted its essential nature based on Nation’s (2006) estimate that knowledge of the first 9,000 word families would provide 98% coverage of various texts. To attain this goal, this study first measured the vocabulary level of Voice of Ame...

The present research investigated the effectiveness of Harvard Business School (HBS) case method to teaching English for Business Communication in an EFL context. The HBS case method is a commonly-used approach in the field of business and management to prepare MBA students for the challenges of leadership. In contrast, in the field of English lang...

This research describes an attempt to establish a pedagogically useful list of the most frequent formulaic sequences for engineering undergraduates who need to read the textbooks of their fields in English. The Engineering English Formulae/Formulaic Sequences List (EEFL) was derived from a corpus containing 4.57 million tokens of one hundred colleg...

This paper describes an attempt to establish a pedagogically useful list of the most frequent semantically non-transparent formulaic sequences for non-English majors in an EFL context, who need to read the textbooks of their fields in English. The list was compiled from a corpus containing 20 million running words of two hundred college textbooks a...

The purpose of this research was twofold: to examine the vocabulary demands of English-medium engineering textbooks and to create an Engineering English Word List (EEWL) to cover EFL students’ lexical shortage. The researcher compiled a corpus containing 4.57 million running words of 100 college textbooks across 20 engineering subject areas from e-...

This study created a medical word list (MWL) to bridge the gap between non-technical and technical vocabulary. The researcher compiled a corpus containing 155 textbooks across 31 medical subject areas from e-book databases (totaling 15 million running words) and examined the range and frequency of words outside the most frequent 3,000-word families...

This study concerned multiple exposures to English before writing and aimed to explore the possibility of an increase in free active vocabulary with a focus on latent productive vocabulary beyond the first 2,000 most frequent words. The researcher incorporated online video into her college freshman composition class and examined its effects on non-...

This research compiled two corpora, one for English-medium textbooks for business core courses (totaling 7.2 million running words) and the other for business research articles (7.62 million tokens), to form a basis of analysis. The results show that knowledge of the most frequent 3500 word families and 5000 word families plus proper nouns would pr...

Abstract This study aims to create a corpus of General English (GE) reading textbooks used in universities in Taiwan to form the basis of an analysis. The operational measures for comparison involved vocabulary size, vocabu- lary levels (distribution among the British National Corpus 1st–14th 1,000 high-frequency word families) and text coverage. C...

This research aims to create two corpora, one for college General English (GE) textbooks used in Taiwan, and the other for English-medium textbooks for business core courses, to form a basis of comparison. The operational measures for analysis involved vocabulary size, vocabulary levels (distribution among the British National Corpus 1st-14th 1,000...

This research sets out reflections on a teaching procedure for the use of business case studies in an EBP class. The pedagogical framework involves: (1.) content-based instruction (CBI); (2.) undertaking a series of pre-task activities as preparation for the subsequent business case study (TBL language preparation); (3.) imparting knowledge of the...

The present research results from a reflection on the researcher's teaching procedure in her research writing course for undergraduate English majors in an EFL context. The paper offers a conceptual framework with a genre and courseware approach embedded and outlines the pedagogical procedures on which the framework is based. The researcher used a...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Essex, 2003. Includes bibliographical references. Photocopy.