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Concordancing and the Teaching of the Vocabulary of Academic English.

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Thurstun, Jennifer; Candlin, Christopher N. – English for Specific Purposes, 1998

A project used a concordancing program with a corpus of academic texts to introduce students unfamiliar with the language of academic discourse to some important, frequent, and significant items in English academic vocabulary. It has developed materials for classroom and independent use intended for native speakers as well as learners of English…

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