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Agustus 28, 2023—Master program in Linguistics Universitas Diponegoro organized a guest lecture explaining how to do academic word list research in applied linguistics. This webinar invited a speaker from the School of Education, University of Leeds, Dr. Yen Dang and moderated by Dr. Mualimin, M.Hum. as a lecturer of master program in Linguistics Undip which also focused on applied linguistics.
This webinar was followed by 295 participants from several countries around the world, including senior high school students, college students, lecturers, and public societies. This event was quite interactive, it is shown by the involvement of participants in answering the speaker’s questions via Zoom chat column. Participants’ enthusiasm also appeared during the Q&A session, in which some participants asked questions.
Dr. Yen Dang explained that the target of the Academic Spoken Word List (ASWL) study is learners’s English for Academic Purposes (EAP). So ASWL is very important to help language learners deal with lexical challenges in academic listening in their degree courses. She tends this study for learners of foreign or second language learning and teaching. Not only in academic listening but also she describes assessing vocabulary use in speaking and writing skills based on corpus linguistics. Furthermore, to do research about this scope, she mentions four steps. First, determine the reasons for making the list. Second, choosing or creating a relevant corpus. Third, deciding on the lexical units. Fourth, calssifying ASWL in some criteria, such as size and coverage; word families; word distributions, and adaptability to learners levels.