1st Edition

Corpora in ESP/EAP Writing Instruction Preparation, Exploitation, Analysis

Edited By Maggie Charles, Ana Frankenberg-Garcia Copyright 2021
194 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection showcases the latest innovations in research on the application of corpora and corpus-based methods in ESP/EAP writing instruction and the many ways in which corpora can be successfully and practically integrated in ESP/EAP programmes. While previous work has discussed the successful use of corpora in teaching writing in the areas of ESP/EAP, this book is the first of its kind... Read more

Dichotomies and debates in corpora and ESP/EAP writing

Maggie Charles & Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

I. Preparation

Chapter 1 Exploiting corpora to provide guidance for academic writing: The BAWE Quicklinks project

Benet Vincent, Hilary Nesi & Daniel Quinn

Chapter 2 Discipline-specific academic phraseology: Corpus evidence and potential applications

Geraint Paul Rees

II. Exploitation

Chapter 3 Exploring the relationships between English writing motivation and uptake of corpus-aided corrective feedback: A longitudinal study

Hsien-Chin Liou & Szu-Yu Liu

Chapter 4 Exploiting a genre-specific corpus in ESP writing: students’ preferences and strategies

Katherine Ackerley

Chapter 5 Undergraduate students’ responses to a corpus-based ESP course with DIY corpora

Reka R. Jablonkai & Neva Čebron

III. Analysis

Chapter 6 The use of stance in L2 first-year college writing: Its relation to genre, revision, and writer characteristics

Ji-young Shin

Chapter 7 Identifying collocation issues in English L2 research article writing

Paula Tavares Pinto, Geraint Paul Rees & Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

Afterword

Lynne Flowerdew

Biography

Maggie Charles taught EAP at Oxford University for many years; she currently works on the Cara EAP programme for Syrian refugee academics. Her research is on the analysis of academic discourse and corpus use in EAP writing pedagogy. She co-wrote the textbook Introducing English for Academic Purposes (Routledge, 2015).

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (PhD in Applied Linguistics, Edinburgh) is Reader in Translation Studies at the University of Surrey. Her research focuses on applied uses of corpora in writing, translation and lexicography. Her main projects include the ColloCaid writing assistant, the COMPARA parallel Portuguese-English corpus, and the bilingual Oxford Portuguese Dictionary.