Vander Viana, Aisling O'Boyle

Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how corpus analyses can enhance students', practitioners' and researchers' knowledge of academic language. The book provides a reader-friendly discussion of the key concepts, practices and research applications of corpus linguistics which are relevant to the EAP community.

The volume:

. empowers readers to compile and analyze EAP-relevant corpora to support their practice;

. draws on open-access resources, allowing readers in all contexts to engage in corpus analyses;

. examines how corpus studies have advanced the description of spoken, written and computer-mediated academic discourses;

. contains numerous reflective and hands-on tasks.

Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes is an essential book for EAP students, practitioners and researchers who wish to develop corpus analytical skills to support their learning, teaching and research practice. It is equally important to novice corpus linguists who wish to find out how they can contribute to the ever-expanding area of EAP.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000506556
• Artikelnr.: 63150406

Autorenporträt

Vander Viana is Associate Professor in Education, directs the Master's in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and is the founder/leader of the Language in Education Research Group at the University of East Anglia. His areas of research expertise include corpus linguistics, English for academic purposes, TESOL and language teacher education.

Aisling O'Boyle is Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Language Education Research at Queen's University Belfast. Her areas of research expertise include the application of corpus linguistics to language learning and education, and she has research interests in the socially embedded nature of English language education.