Abstract
This study extracted and examined the key words of Hotel English Corpus. The Hotel English Corpus used in this study consists of 719,578 words and five genres such as hotel homepages, academic journals, newspapers, books and spoken English textbooks. WordSmith tools 6.0 was used to extract the positive and negative key words in 5 genres and compare the lexical characteristics. The keywords were classified into two main categories; the positive keywords and the negative keywords. The positive keywords generated from the Hotel English Corpus show the characteristics of Hotel English and should be given priority treatment. The study confirms that the keyword lists which are different according to the each genre are essential and helpful and also play a significant role in hotel English education and research. This study suggests that there are different keywords which are frequently used in each genre and the hotel English learners including hotel employees, hotel guests and researchers should study these words to understand and use better hotel English.
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