Table 28.1 List of the fifty most frequent keywords in a corpus of sample in-house EAP materials
Word | Freq. | Word | Freq. | ||
1 | of | 1164 | 26 | fast | 105 |
2 | in | 953 | 27 | these | 101 |
3 | is | 613 | 28 | academic | 98 |
4 | you | 565 | 29 | used | 97 |
5 | are | 381 | 30 | other | 95 |
6 | your | 332 | 31 | sentences | 86 |
7 | this | 272 | 32 | how | 86 |
8 | or | 227 | 33 | read | 83 |
9 | which | 212 | 34 | also | 80 |
10 | what | 208 | 35 | project | 78 |
11 | an | 184 | 36 | make | 78 |
12 | about | 155 | 37 | need | 75 |
13 | do | 153 | 38 | may | 75 |
14 | can | 152 | 39 | write | 74 |
15 | words | 141 | 40 | using | 74 |
16 | will | 140 | 41 | following | 69 |
17 | use | 132 | 42 | look | 66 |
18 | has | 132 | 43 | most | 65 |
19 | some | 128 | 44 | countries | 64 |
20 | food | 126 | 45 | own | 62 |
21 | information | 123 | 46 | work | 61 |
22 | text | 121 | 47 | tourism | 60 |
23 | writing | 119 | 48 | different | 60 |
24 | more | 118 | 49 | check | 59 |
25 | language | 117 | 50 | word | 59 |