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This descriptive research study aimed at discovering patterns in word lists that English-language learners write in five minutes. Once a week at the start of class from September through December 2017 four Kazakhstani tweens (two boys and two older girls) wrote as many words as they could in five minutes. The words they wrote were analyzed for vocabulary level and for patterns in parts of speech and semantic domains.
Patterns in both the aggregate and differences between the two pairs were present. Most words were one syllable long, twice as many as those with two syllables. The most common part of speech was noun (60%), followed by verb (18%). This contrasts with patterns on two basic lists of English learners. The National General Service List (NGSL) drops from 50 to 25 percent for nouns to verbs and the Dolch list has more verbs than nouns (39% to 30%). The actual words the children wrote overlapped with both the NGSL and the Dolch list. But little more than two-thirds of the 315 Dolch words are included, and over a quarter of the Word Blitz words are not on the NGSL. These distributions seem to be due to the presence of simple, common words in the lists that are not common in English readers or general English, respectively. This is especially true of concrete nouns such as apple and balloon. In addition, words of personal interest, and words from the course contributed less common entries.
Among the SIL International's semantic domains, topics popular among young people dominated. Food was the most popular category, especially for the girls. Other popular domains were social, animal, quality, and teach. A few gender differences in domain representation stood out. The boys had a far greater percentage of types falling in the part of speech category, whereas the girls had more than half again as many food terms. Relative frequency of types for social activity and animals were virtually the same for the two groups.
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KeywordsEFL, English as a Foreign Language, foreign-language learning, Kazakhstan, language learning, rapid recall, Russian speakers, semantic domain, Word Blitz
Degree AwardedMasters of Arts in Education
Awarding InstitutionGreenville University
Supervisor or ChairLarissa Malone, PHD
Peer Reviewed?No
Pages79
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