106年01月04日  

研究生：張庭嘉

指導教授: 白查理  博士

以語料庫分析法分析與移民勞工相關議題之政府網頁英文詞彙

A Corpus-Based Analysis of English Vocabulary Used in Government Websites Related to Immigrant Labor Issues 

摘要:

     人類藉由語言相互溝通，在現今越來越多人移至他方尋找更好的工作機會，而語言也就成為了重要的基礎一環。尋找資訊過程中，我們可以透過政府網站所釋出的訊息，得到可仰賴的消息。此外，許多政府網站皆提供英文介面。根據Laufer (1989)的研究中，提出並證實，若讀者認識一篇文章中95%的英文字彙，便可獲得足夠的文章理解力。本研究針對國際移工者為對象，收集多國政府英文詞彙，以及成本研究語料庫，進而分析網頁難易度，並期盼能針對讀者，發展出與議題高度相關之英文字彙。研究結果發現，本研究之政府網頁英文詞彙難易度適中，須認識4000至5000家族單字，才可理解本語料庫。因此，本研究亦發展出243家族單字，供給欲理解移民相關議題之英文文章的人學習，英文初學者，認識此243家族單字，亦與認識4000至5000家族單字的人一樣，可有效達到理解文章之能力。

關鍵字: 國際移工者、新住民、語料庫、英文學習、E政府 

Abstract:

     Language is a tool that keeps humankind communicating with one another. In modern life, more and more people are migrating for employment opportunities, and language is one of the issues along with migration. People nowadays can get reliable information via government websites; moreover, most countries provide information in English. According to Laufer (1989), ninety-five percent of the words from a text must be known by the reader to get adequate reading comprehension. This study aims to provide an analysis of vocabulary load of websites associated with immigrant labor by collecting the e-government information for immigrant labor as a study corpus. Moreover, creating a word list associated with immigrant labor topics is undertaken as well. The results show that the English level of government websites collected in this study is moderate. People would need to equip themselves with four thousand to five thousand word families to comprehend the websites. Hence, this study also developed a word list with 243 word families to provide those who want to read about immigration related issues a short-cut to learn the needed vocabulary. For a basic English learner who may have knowledge of the most frequent 2000 word families, they can learn these additional 243 word families to meet the same comprehension ability on this topic with those who have a vocabulary at a 4000 to 5000 word family level.

Keywords: Corpus study, E-government, English vocabulary, immigrant labor, migrant