Table 4 Repetition of words across units in interpreting textbooks.
From: A corpus-based assessment of vocabulary in interpreting textbooks
Textbook A | Textbook B | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Repetition across units | Lemma | % | Sub-total | % | Lemma | % | Sub-total | % | |
At least five times | High-frequency words | 610 | 13.4% | 739 | 16.2% | 485 | 11.8% | 539 | 13.1% |
Mid-frequency words | 101 | 2.2% | 42 | 1.0% | |||||
Low-frequency words | 1 | 0.0% | 1 | 0.0% | |||||
Supplementary lists | 27 | 0.6% | 11 | 0.3% | |||||
Once to four times | High-frequency words | 813 | 17.8% | 1583 | 34.7% | 867 | 21.0% | 1495 | 36.2% |
Mid-frequency words | 625 | 13.7% | 533 | 12.9% | |||||
Low-frequency words | 15 | 0.3% | 9 | 0.2% | |||||
Supplementary lists | 130 | 2.8% | 86 | 2.1% | |||||
Zero | High-frequency words | 623 | 13.7% | 2242 | 49.1% | 661 | 16.0% | 2093 | 50.7% |
Mid-frequency words | 985 | 21.6% | 995 | 24.1% | |||||
Low-frequency words | 110 | 2.4% | 85 | 2.1% | |||||
Supplementary lists | 524 | 11.5% | 352 | 8.5% | |||||
Total | 4564 | 100.0% | 4127 | 100.0% | |||||
