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Threshold concepts are key terms in domain-based knowledge acquisition. Theyare regarded as building blocks of the conceptual development of domainknowledge within particular learners. From a linguistic perspective, however,threshold concepts are instances of specialized vocabularies, exhibitingparticular linguistic features. Threshold concepts are typically used inspecialized texts such as textbooks -- that is, within a formal learningenvironment. However, they also occur in informal learning environments likenewspapers. In this article, a first approach is taken to combine both linesinto an overarching research program - that is, to provide a computationallinguistic assessment of different resources, including in particular onlineresources, by means of threshold concepts. To this end, the distributiveprofiles of 63 threshold concepts from business education (which have beencollected from threshold concept research) has been investigated in three kindsof (German) resources, namely textbooks, newspapers, and Wikipedia. Wikipediais (one of) the largest and most widely used online resources. We looked at thethreshold concepts' frequency distribution, their compound distribution, andtheir network structure within the three kind of resources. The two mainfindings can be summarized as follows: Firstly, the three kinds of resourcescan indeed be distinguished in terms of their threshold concepts' profiles.Secondly, Wikipedia definitely appears to be a formal learning resource.

Computational linguistic assessment of textbook and online learning media by means of threshold concepts in business education