Constructing English Reading Courseware
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چکیده
There is a wide range of English reading materials for EFL (English as a foreign language) learners. However, it is difficult for teachers to select appropriate materials to construct courseware that can be used for an English course. We propose a method for constructing courseware from a target vocabulary and a corpus. We used the specialized vocabulary for the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and articles from The Daily Yomiuri newspaper to construct effective courseware. The constructed courseware consisted of articles in which the target vocabulary frequently occurred. Evaluation of the constructed courseware is ongoing. However, students have accepted it as an effective tool for learning the TOEIC vocabulary from real texts.
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