Thomas A Upton

Datos Biográficos

ID659323
NOMBREThomas A Upton
NOMBRESThomas A
APELLIDOUpton
FIRMAUPTON T A
AFILIACIONESIndiana University Indianapolis
ORCID0009-0001-7300-2926
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS25
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2014
ÍNDICE H3

  • Learner uptake of teacher electronic feedback in ESL composition

    Open AccessEstela Ene, Thomas A UptonARTICLESystem2014Citada por: 5Referencias: 8

  • Language for Specific Purposes

    Open AccessThomas A Upton, Ulla ConnorCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Language for specific purposes (LSP) is an area of applied linguistics that focuses on the analysis and teaching of language in order to meet specific language needs of non‐native speakers of the language.

  • Materials for Language for Specific Purposes

    Open AccessThomas A UptonCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Tomlinson (1998) defines language learning materials as “anything which is used by teachers or learners to facilitate the learning of a language” (p. 2).

  • An approach to corpus-based discourse analysis

    Open AccessThomas A Upton, Mary Ann Cohen et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Studies2009Citada por: 10Referencias: 17

    This article presents a seven-step corpus-based approach to discourse analysis that starts with a detailed analysis of each individual text in a corpus that can then be generalized across all texts of a corpus, providing a description of typical patterns of discourse organization that hold for the entire corpus. This approach is applied specifically to a methodology that is used to analyze texts in terms of the functional/communicative structures…

  • Discourse on the Move

    Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor et al.BOOKDiscourse on the move2007

    Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each individual text, but doing so in terms that can be generalized across all texts of a corpus. The book explores two major approaches to this task: ‘top…

  • I want to go back to the text

    Open AccessAndrew D Cohen, Thomas A UptonARTICLELanguage Testing2007

    This study describes the reading and test-taking strategies that test takers used on the `Reading' section of the LanguEdge Courseware (2002) materials developed to familiarize prospective respondents with the new TOEFL. The investigation focused on strategies used to respond to more traditional `single selection' multiple-choice formats (i.e., Basic Comprehension and Inferencing questions) and the new selected-response (multiple selection, drag-…

  • Understanding Direct Mail Letters as a genre

    Thomas A UptonARTICLEInternational Journal of Corpus…2002Citada por: 10Referencias: 1

    What makes non-profit, philanthropic discourse so persuasive has not been well explored to date. Using a specialized corpus of direct-mail letters from philanthropic organizations in five different fields, this study seeks to combine the tools of corpus analysis with the specificity of genre analysis in a way that has not been done before to provide a new perspective on a genre that is not well understood. The underlying goal is to look for a met…