Corpus Analysis of Written English for Academic Purposes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23670641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Averil Coxhead (0000-0003-3392-6961, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0255 |
| OpenAlex | W1480160542 |
| ISBN | 9781405198431 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Corpus‐based research and English for academic purposes (EAP) have a close relationship. In his editorial for a special issue on EAP and corpora in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes Thompson (2007, p. 285) explains this connection: “Corpora, at one level, are sources of evidence about language use, and permit a wide range of analyses of how language is used in different registers, contexts, and by different users.” The term EAP covers a wide range of second or other language teaching and learning, including preparation for university studies, support courses for undergraduate second language learners already enrolled in university, and preparation for postgraduate studies to doctoral level. In this entry, we look at how corpus analysis of written texts provides evidence of language in use for EAP and informs dictionary design, materials development, testing, and curriculum design.
Corpus linguistics · Curriculum · English as a second language · English for academic purposes · English language · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Natural language processing · Pedagogy · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |