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Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing: From Extraction to Analysis

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2010
ISBN
9781474211697, 9781441130365
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7433440 bytes)
Pages
\270
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 17:50:26

Description

Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic. In the first part of this book, Magali Paquot scrutinizes the concept of ‘academic vocabulary’ and proposes a corpus-driven procedure based on the criteria of keyness, range and evenness of distribution to select academic words that could be part of a common-core academic vocabulary syllabus. In the second part, the author offers a thorough analysis of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) and describes the factors that account for learners’ difficulties in academic writing. She then focuses on the role of corpora, and more particularly, learner corpora, in EAP material design. It is the first monograph in which Granger’s (1996) Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis is used to compare 10 ICLE learner sub-corpora, in order to distinguish between linguistic features that are shared by learners from a wide range of mother tongue backgrounds and unique features that may be transfer-related.

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