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Project Project Title : Lexical Needs of Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Students at SUT     downloaded 6 times Researcher Name : Jeremy William Ward Abstract : Abstract This project first investigated SUT chemical engineering undergraduate behaviour in relation to their English language textbooks. It was found that although students do in fact use these textbooks, they tend to read the examples and problems much than they read the text. A likely reason for this was the relative difficulty of the text, and it was hypothesized that this difficulty might in part be caused by the presence of many more “text-structuring” words (as in Winter 1978) in the text than in textbooks used by SUT undergraduates, it was established that there are lexical differences between text and applications, but these were not describable in terms of “text-structuring” words. Finally, a list was produced of the 500 most common words in engineering/chemical engineering textbooks was produced. and it was discovered that large parts of the SUT lexical syllabus are irrelevant to the needs of chemical engineering undergraduates. Publications : No  View Publications  Detail Award/Honor :  Name  Sponsor  Get Date

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