Abstract :
Abstract
In the area of EOP (English for occupational purposes) as a branch of ESP (English for special purposes), the lack of technical vocabulary is one challenging issue for learners. The aim of this study was to construct a technical wordlist representing frequent technical words in history of ancient Iran (HAI) to assist Iranian tourist guides on their career path. Therefore, a corpus of HAI (with 1,394,953 tokens) from the related books to HAI was compiled and to build the desired technical wordlist a mixed- method was used, in which both qualitative and quantitative ways in data analysis were taken into consideration in a step-by-step fashion. Different phases of analyzing the data consisted of 6 criteria or filters; lexical profiling, frequency, range, keyword analysis, expert consolation and vocabulary profiling. To perform the quantitative aspect of the data analysis, we took the advantage of Antwordprofiler (Anthony,2022) and Key-BNC program to perform lexical profiling, keyword analysis and to determine frequency and range of the words, As for the qualitative phase of the research two experts in HAI who were also working in the area of tourist guiding for more than 10 years participated in the research and ranked the obtained words on a 4 point scale point 1 was assigned to words not related to the field and point 4 to words that were significantly related to HAI. Finally, the words with 3 and 4 points were assigned to the final list. Findings revealed that the lexical coverage of the HAI frequent technical word list was 9% of the whole corpus. Regarding the pedagogical implications of the final list of the frequent technical words in HAI, it could be used by language teachers as a supplementary vocabulary learning material in the ESP classes to train tourist guides or by the material developers to help them make sure that they incorporate the more frequent words in HAI, in the related subject too. Also, the more autonomous tourist guides or English learners interested in HAI can use the list on their own through innovative ways or while retelling the historical events related to ancient Iran.
