Vocabulario básico de orientación didáctica

Abstract

This investigation has a pedagogical purpose. By means of the vocabulary used in the different subjects on the secondary education level, it tries to show which concepts and processes in the intellectual development are common so that we can contribute to coordination among them. We are not dealing with a linguistic study, but we use the linguistic contents in the scientific discourse (nouns and verbs) in order to analyze the relationship between the different subjects. This vocabulary collects the basic elements in the students scientific development and it is a guide for teachers as well. Moreover, it can also be used when teaching Spanish as a foreign language, in texts processing, in exams and tests, etc. Terms have been extracted from a corpus of twenty-four texts coming from the different subjects on secondary education (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Zoology, Botany, Geology, Grammar, Literature, History, Geography, Philosophy and History of Philosophy).The result was a total of 6,561 nouns and 1,519 verbs, together with the indexes of Frequency, Dispersion and Use.