A Corpus-Based Study on the Technical Vocabulary of Islamic Religious Studies

A Corpus-Based Study on the Technical Vocabulary of Islamic Religious Studies

This paper charts the construction of a technical vocabulary list called the Islamic Religious Studies Textbooks Vocabulary (IRSTV) which was developed from the Corpus of Islamic religious studies textbooks (CIRST) in an Indonesian Islamic State Institute (IISI). The study is aimed to meet the need...

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Published in:TEFLIN journal Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 47 - 71
Main Authors: Simbuka, Srifani, Hamied, Fuad A, Sundayana, Wachyu, Kwary, Deny A
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malang Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN) 2019
State University of Malang, English Department, Faculty of Letters
Subjects:
College students
Computational Linguistics
Computer Software
Corpus analysis
Corpus linguistics
corpus-based approach
EFL
English (Second Language)
English as a second language learning
English for Special Purposes
English language learners
Foreign Countries
Higher education
Islam
Islamic Religious Studies
Language acquisition
Linguistics
Nursing
Pedagogy
Philosophy
Quantitative analysis
Religion
Religion Studies
Religious Education
Religious studies
Science
Scientific technical language
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Second Languages
Social sciences
Software
Student Needs
technical vocabulary
Textbooks
Theological Education
Theology
Undergraduate Students
Universities
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Development
Word Frequency
Word Lists
Indonesia
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Summary:This paper charts the construction of a technical vocabulary list called the Islamic Religious Studies Textbooks Vocabulary (IRSTV) which was developed from the Corpus of Islamic religious studies textbooks (CIRST) in an Indonesian Islamic State Institute (IISI). The study is aimed to meet the need of first-year English language learners studying in Indonesian Islamic tertiary education. The IRSTV list contains selected word types extracted from five major sub-disciplines of Islamic Religious Studies (IRS), i.e. the science of Qur'an, the science of Hadiths, Islamic law and jurisprudence, Islamic philosophy and theology, and Islamic mysticism theology, taught in most Indonesian Islamic universities and colleges. The quantitative analysis of frequency, range and keyness score ranking was conducted and aided by Corpus analysis software i.e. Antwordprof and Antconc keyword tool. A final triangulated ranking of these three criteria was conducted to produce a more balanced technical vocabulary list resulting in 262 word types or 239 lemmas of English words that are needed to be learned by English as Foreign Language (EFL) students of Indonesian Islamic universities, state institutes and colleges.
ISSN:0215-773X
2356-2641
DOI:10.15639/teflinjournal.v30i1/47-71