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Exploring the Vocabulary Makeup of Scripted and Unscripted Television Programs and Their Potential for Incidental Vocabulary Learning

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Hesamoddin Shahriari; Masoud Motamedynia – TESL Canada Journal, 2022

The present study investigated the lexical demands of scripted and unscripted television programs. To that end, two corpora consisting of 286 episodes from 14 different programs, both scripted and unscripted, were analyzed. The results indicated that the 1,000 most frequent word families, plus proper nouns, marginal words, transparent compounds,…

Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Television, Programming (Broadcast)