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1、A Comparative Study on Vocabulary between New Horizon and New Standard College English from Internal Evaluation Abstract: This essay evaluates the vocabulary difference in New Horizon College English and New Standard College English through setting up two databases of the words, to compare the volum
2、e, the proportion, the frequency, and the learning method of the new words of each book, involving quantitative approach, in order to provide some enlightenment for those researchers who are interested in this field. Keywords: textbook evaluation; vocabularyProject: Comparative Textbook Evaluation b
3、etween NSCE and NHCEFund: the China Fifth Educational Fund新视野与新标准大学英语词汇内部对比研究 摘 要:本文主要通过建立新标准大学英语与新视野大学英语词库，从词汇本身内部角度，定量研究两套教材内部新词总量、所占比率浮现率及学习词汇方法各个方面的不同，目的是为同样对此方面感兴趣的同行提供参考。关键字: 教材评估；词汇 New Horizon College English (NHCE) and the New Standard College English (NSCE) are two sets of currently-used t
4、extbooks for non-English majors by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. The reason for vocabulary to be taken as a single aspect of textbook evaluation is two-fold. First，it is because vocabu1ary acquisition has its unchallengeable place in textbooks，so vocabulary 1argely decides the qualit
5、y of a textbook. Secondly，it is because the criteria of vocabulary can be easily quantified in the evaluation process.The internal evaluation about the new words focuses on the internal accountability of the words themselves, including the new word volume, the new word proportion, the word frequency
6、, and the word learning method in each exercise. Furthermore, the rapid development of databases offers a handy tool as well as an examination platform for evaluation. Cunningsworth (1984) argues that in normal circumstances the proportion of new words in a text should not exceed 5% of the total in
7、that it does little good to students in forming good communication strategies to work out the meanings of unfamiliar words by using context. After analyzing the data bases with the help of Word Smart 2010 and the data bases of two sets of book1, the results about the size and proportion of new vocab
8、ulary are listed below (see Table 1)：Table 1 related statistics of new vocabularies in two booksItemNHCENSCETotal size of new vocabulary734 words715 wordsLength of the texts13914 words14434 wordsAverage Proportion of new vocabulary734/13914=5.27%715/14434=4.95%So in this aspect, the average proporti
9、on of new vocabulary 5.27 % of NHCE is not very proper. On the other hand, the proportion of NSCE 4.95% is just under 5% and very proper. Then the statistics of groups of five words are picked out by 500 words. For the top five words of each book, they are even same words like “the”, “to”, “and”, “a
10、”, and “of” with a small difference in number. And then from Number 501 to 505 words, they are also commonly-used words and appear six times too. Next, the following words are all commonly used and appearing fewer and fewer times. Last, for Number 2001 to 2005 words, basically they are new words and
11、 appear only once until the last word of each book. Since the total number of words in NHCE is larger than that in NSCE, so the ratio of frequency of words in nearly zero while that of NSCE is 0.01. As we can see, there is not so much difference in the word frequency of these two books.For the appro
12、aches applied in the book to help students learn the vocabularies, lets make an introduction of the exercises of vocabularies in both of the books. On one hand, in section A of NHCE, the exercise A contains blank filling and banked cloze. And in section B, there are blank filling and word choosing.
13、On the other hand, there are three parts of exercises related with the word-learning, named Dealing with Unfamiliar words including definition-matching, synonym replacement, situational choices, and word collocation explanation and application in NSCE. From the above discussion, there are enough new
14、 vocabularies in both of the books to meet requirement of the CECR. And for the repetition rate of new words, there is not so much difference. However, the average new word proportion of NHCE is not very proper, while the proportion of NSCE is very proper. Last, no matter from the volume and the div
15、ersity, NSCE provide a better word-learning method than those of NHCE.Therefore, it is important that new vocabularies of the book should be controlled in terms of quantity and difficulty. When we choose textbook, it is better to choose texts where new words are spread over instead of being together
16、 so that the density of new words is within the ability and interest of the students, because the size of new vocabulary is quite important to ensure reasonable learning load and also to ensure that there are sufficient familiar words in the text to provide a comprehensible context.参考文献:1Cunnings worth, A. Evaluating and Selecting EFL Teaching Materials M. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd: London.19842程晓堂 英语教材分析与设计M，北京:外语教学与研究出版社2003.3周雪林 .浅谈外语教材评估标准J, 上海:外语界，1996年第2期作者简介：黄洁：女，1978年出生，祖籍河北，讲师，硕士，任教于西安工业大学外语学院，研究方向英语语言学及应用语言学，电话18991143460刘改琳：女，1965年出生，教授，硕导。祖籍陕西，西安工业大学外语学院，研究方向英语语言学及应用语言学
