Lynne Flowerdew
Biographic Data
| ID | 5997550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne Flowerdew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne |
| FAMILY NAME | Flowerdew |
| SIGNATURE | FLOWERDEW L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1771-4048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
English for Academic Purposes
English for academic purposes (EAP) can be classified into two main areas: English for study purposes and English for professional academic purposes. EAP courses differ from general English courses by focusing on students' needs in view of the tasks and activities students will be using English for as well as their level of competence, previous learning experiences, and so forth. Key debates in the literature on EAP, which have raised both theore…
Corpora and Language Teaching
A corpus for language teaching purposes is defined as a collection of texts in machine‐readable form to be representative of the kind of authentic language that is the focus of pedagogy. A concordancing tool is used to search the machine‐readable text, which presents multiple examples of the search term in context. Many useful publicly available corpora exist with their own search tools. Small, specialized corpora have also been compiled by the c…
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited
The Academic Literacies approach to scholarly writing: A view through the lens of the ESP/Genre approach
I first briefly review two paradigms for scholarly writing, namely the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Academic Literacies (Ac Lits) approaches. ESP has traditionally been considered as the dominant paradigm and Ac Lits as somewhat on the margins of academic writing theory and practice. My aim in this article is to illustrate which areas and methodologies from ESP, especially corpus-based techniques, could usefully inform Ac Lits. The fin…
English for Academic Purposes
English for academic purposes (EAP) is one area within the wider field of ESP (English for specific purposes). Like ESP courses, EAP courses differ from general English courses by focusing on students' needs in view of the tasks and activities students will be using English for as well as their level of competence, previous learning experiences, and so forth. Key debates in the literature on EAP which have raised both theoretical and practical is…
Corpus-based discourse analysis
Corpus-based research and pedagogy in EAP: From lexis to genre
This plenary paper showcases current corpus-based research on written academic English, illustrating the tight links that exist between corpus research and pedagogic applications. I first explicate Sinclair's concept of the ‘lexical approach’, which underpins much corpus research and pedagogy. I then discuss studies which focus on individual lexical items, phraseology (including lexical bundles) and rhetorical functions. Finally, I examine studie…
Grammar and the Research Article
The research article (RA) is one of the most important genres in academic discourse, one reason being that progression in an academic career can hinge on the quality and quantity of an academic's publication record.
English for Academic Purposes
First, it is necessary to examine how the field of English for academic purposes (EAP) positions itself within the wider field of ESP (English for specific purposes).
Applying corpus linguistics to pedagogy: A critical evaluation
This article reviews and discusses four somewhat contentious issues in the application of corpus linguistics to pedagogy, ESP in particular. Corpus linguistic techniques have been criticized on the grounds that they encourage a more bottom-up rather than top-down processing of text in which concordance lines are examined atomistically. One criticism levelled against corpus data is that a corpus presents language out of its original context. For t…
A Combined Corpus and Systemic-Functional Analysis of the Problem-Solution Pattern in a Student and Professional Corpus of Technical Writing
This article reports on research describing similarities and differences between expert and novice writing in the problem-solution pattern, a frequent rhetorical pattern of technical academic writing. A corpus of undergraduate student writing and one containing professional writing consisted of 80 and 60 recommendation reports, respectively, with each corpus totaling approximately 250,000 words. Drawing on two analytic perspectives, the methodolo…
Corpus linguistic techniques applied to textlinguistics
Corpus-based research and pedagogy in EAP: From lexis to genre
This plenary paper showcases current corpus-based research on written academic English, illustrating the tight links that exist between corpus research and pedagogic applications. I first explicate Sinclair's concept of the ‘lexical approach’, which underpins much corpus research and pedagogy. I then discuss studies which focus on individual lexical items, phraseology (including lexical bundles) and rhetorical functions. Finally, I examine studie…
Applying corpus linguistics to pedagogy: A critical evaluation
This article reviews and discusses four somewhat contentious issues in the application of corpus linguistics to pedagogy, ESP in particular. Corpus linguistic techniques have been criticized on the grounds that they encourage a more bottom-up rather than top-down processing of text in which concordance lines are examined atomistically. One criticism levelled against corpus data is that a corpus presents language out of its original context. For t…
A Combined Corpus and Systemic-Functional Analysis of the Problem-Solution Pattern in a Student and Professional Corpus of Technical Writing
This article reports on research describing similarities and differences between expert and novice writing in the problem-solution pattern, a frequent rhetorical pattern of technical academic writing. A corpus of undergraduate student writing and one containing professional writing consisted of 80 and 60 recommendation reports, respectively, with each corpus totaling approximately 250,000 words. Drawing on two analytic perspectives, the methodolo…
Corpus linguistic techniques applied to textlinguistics
Corpus linguistic techniques applied to textlinguistics
A Combined Corpus and Systemic-Functional Analysis of the Problem-Solution Pattern in a Student and Professional Corpus of Technical Writing
This article reports on research describing similarities and differences between expert and novice writing in the problem-solution pattern, a frequent rhetorical pattern of technical academic writing. A corpus of undergraduate student writing and one containing professional writing consisted of 80 and 60 recommendation reports, respectively, with each corpus totaling approximately 250,000 words. Drawing on two analytic perspectives, the methodolo…
Applying corpus linguistics to pedagogy: A critical evaluation
This article reviews and discusses four somewhat contentious issues in the application of corpus linguistics to pedagogy, ESP in particular. Corpus linguistic techniques have been criticized on the grounds that they encourage a more bottom-up rather than top-down processing of text in which concordance lines are examined atomistically. One criticism levelled against corpus data is that a corpus presents language out of its original context. For t…
Grammar and the Research Article
The research article (RA) is one of the most important genres in academic discourse, one reason being that progression in an academic career can hinge on the quality and quantity of an academic's publication record.
English for Academic Purposes
First, it is necessary to examine how the field of English for academic purposes (EAP) positions itself within the wider field of ESP (English for specific purposes).
Corpus-based discourse analysis
Corpus-based research and pedagogy in EAP: From lexis to genre
This plenary paper showcases current corpus-based research on written academic English, illustrating the tight links that exist between corpus research and pedagogic applications. I first explicate Sinclair's concept of the ‘lexical approach’, which underpins much corpus research and pedagogy. I then discuss studies which focus on individual lexical items, phraseology (including lexical bundles) and rhetorical functions. Finally, I examine studie…
English for Academic Purposes
English for academic purposes (EAP) is one area within the wider field of ESP (English for specific purposes). Like ESP courses, EAP courses differ from general English courses by focusing on students' needs in view of the tasks and activities students will be using English for as well as their level of competence, previous learning experiences, and so forth. Key debates in the literature on EAP which have raised both theoretical and practical is…
The Academic Literacies approach to scholarly writing: A view through the lens of the ESP/Genre approach
I first briefly review two paradigms for scholarly writing, namely the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Academic Literacies (Ac Lits) approaches. ESP has traditionally been considered as the dominant paradigm and Ac Lits as somewhat on the margins of academic writing theory and practice. My aim in this article is to illustrate which areas and methodologies from ESP, especially corpus-based techniques, could usefully inform Ac Lits. The fin…
A critical review of corpus-based pedagogic perspectives on thesis writing: Specificity revisited
Corpora and Language Teaching
A corpus for language teaching purposes is defined as a collection of texts in machine‐readable form to be representative of the kind of authentic language that is the focus of pedagogy. A concordancing tool is used to search the machine‐readable text, which presents multiple examples of the search term in context. Many useful publicly available corpora exist with their own search tools. Small, specialized corpora have also been compiled by the c…
English for Academic Purposes
English for academic purposes (EAP) can be classified into two main areas: English for study purposes and English for professional academic purposes. EAP courses differ from general English courses by focusing on students' needs in view of the tasks and activities students will be using English for as well as their level of competence, previous learning experiences, and so forth. Key debates in the literature on EAP, which have raised both theore…
Linguistics (10 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Corpus linguistics (8 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · English for academic purposes (4 works)