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1、VOCABULARYLISTBusinessEnglishCertificate(BEC)PreliminaryBECPreliminaryWordlist©UCLES2006IntroductiontotheBECPreliminaryWordlistTheBECPreliminaryWordlistgivesteachersaguidetothevocabularyneededwhenpreparingstudentsfortheBECPreliminaryexamination.Backgroundtothelist
2、TheBECPreliminaryVocabularylistwasoriginallydevelopedbyCambridgeESOLinconsultationwithexternalconsultantstoguideitemwriterswhoproducematerialsfortheBECPreliminaryexamination.ItincludesvocabularyfromtheCouncilofEurope’sThreshold(1990)specificationandbusiness-relate
3、dvocabularywhichcorpusevidenceshowsishighfrequency.ThelistcoversvocabularyappropriatetothislevelofEnglishandincludesreceptivevocabulary(wordsthatthecandidateisexpectedtounderstandbutwhichisnotthefocusofaquestion),andproductivevocabulary(wordsthatthecandidateneedst
4、oknowtoansweraquestion).ThelistdoesnotprovideanexhaustivelistofallwordswhichappearonBECPreliminaryquestionpapersandcandidatesshouldnotconfinetheirstudyofvocabularytothelistalone.HowthelistisupdatedUsageofbusinesslanguagecanchangerapidly,asshownbythegrowthofemailco
5、rrespondenceandassociatedvocabularyinthelasttenyears.Inordertomaintainitscurrency,thewordlistisupdatedonanannualbasisbytheadditionandremovalofwords,usingacorpus-basedapproach.Suggestedadditionstothewordlistarecollatedandthefrequencyofthesewordsisobtainedbyreferenc
6、etoestablishedcorpora(electronicdatabases).Thecorporainquestionrepresentreceptiveandproductivelanguageinbusinessandgeneralcontexts.ThemaincorporausedforthevalidationoftheBECPreliminarywordlistare:•theCambridgeLearnercorpus(CLC)whichincludesover20millionwordsofwrit
7、tenlearnerEnglishatsixlevels;•theBritishNationalCorpus(BNC)whichincludes100millionwordsofwrittenandspokennativespeakerdata,includingfourmillionbusiness-orientedwords;•aweb-derivedcorpusofbusiness-relatedarticleswhichincludes120,000wordsfromUSandUKbusinessarticles.
8、Howthelistisorganised•WordsetsSomecategoriesofwordswhichalearneratthislevelmightbeexpectedtoknowarenotincludedinthealphabeticallistbutappearseparatelyin
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