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Publication Date: 2007-Oct
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Issues in Creating a Corpus for EAP Pedagogy and Research
Krishnamurthy, Ramesh; Kosem, Iztok
Journal of English for Academic Purposes, v6 n4 p356-373 Oct 2007
UK universities are accepting increasing numbers of students whose L1 is not English on a wide range of programmes at all levels. These students require additional support and training in English, focussing on their academic disciplines. Corpora have been used in EAP since the 1980s, mainly for research, but a growing number of researchers and practitioners have been advocating the use of corpora in EAP pedagogy, and such use is gradually increasing. This paper outlines the processes and factors to be considered in the design and compilation of an EAP corpus (e.g., the selection and acquisition of texts, metadata, data annotation, software tools and outputs, web interface, and screen displays), especially one intended to be used for teaching. Such a corpus would also facilitate EAP research in terms of longitudinal studies, student progression and development, and course and materials design. The paper has been informed by the preparatory work on the EAP subcorpus of the ACORN corpus project at Aston University.
Descriptors: Internet, Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, College Instruction, Instructional Design, Computer Software, Computer Interfaces, Information Sources, Information Retrieval, Data, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Research, Program Development, Instructional Materials
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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