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Selecting Television Programs for Language Learning: Investigating Television Programs from the Same Genre
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Webb, Stuart – International Journal of English Studies, 2011
The scripts of 288 television episodes were analysed to determine the extent to which vocabulary reoccurs in television programs from the same subgenres and unrelated television programs from different genres. Episodes from two programs from each of the following three subgenres of the American drama genre: medical, spy/action, and criminal…
Descriptors: Television, Scripts, Classification, Morphemes
The Lexical Coverage of Movies
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Webb, Stuart; Rodgers, Michael P. H. – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The scripts of 318 movies were analyzed in this study to determine the vocabulary size necessary to understand 95% and 98% of the words in movies. The movies consisted of 2,841,887 running words and had a total running time of 601 hours and 33 minutes. The movies were classified as either American or British, and then put into the following…
Descriptors: Scripts, Physical Activities, Nouns, Vocabulary
Narrow Viewing: The Vocabulary in Related Television Programs
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Rodgers, Michael P. H.; Webb, Stuart – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
In this study, the scripts of 288 television episodes were analyzed to determine the extent to which vocabulary reoccurs in related and unrelated television programs, and the potential for incidental vocabulary learning through watching one season (approximately 24 episodes) of television programs. The scripts consisted of 1,330,268 running words…
Descriptors: Television, Television Viewing, Scripts, Content Analysis