Domain analysis

Research‐based reverse design for languages for specific purposes

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ID8936101
AuthorsDarcy Lear (0000-0002-5533-1021, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures University of Chicago Chicago Illinois USA, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume54
Issue1
Pages139-157
Publication date2021-02-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueForeign Language Annals (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-718X • E-ISSN: 1944-9720
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/flan.12509
OpenAlexW3132695201
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

This study introduces an evidence‐centered approach to reverse design for languages for specific purposes (LSP) courses called domain analysis. The article describes the research framework and its potential to provide consistent empirical rigor to the necessarily decentralized field of LSP by reporting on one study using domain analysis in the legal Spanish context. The research questions examine the parameters of the domain under study—legal Spanish for law students at one university—and the target functional outcomes for those students. The results included parameters that were limited to public interest law in the U.S. context. Eight topic areas emerged as central to that context and functional outcomes were identified for reading, listening, and speaking. Though sight translation was a necessary skill, writing was not needed in the domain

Active listening · Context (archaeology · Domain (mathematical analysis · Empirical research · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Natural language processing · Programming language · Public domain · Reading (process · Research design · Reverse engineering · Social science · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media

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