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OverviewAcademic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic. In the first part of this book , Magali Paquot scrutinizes the concept of 'academic vocabulary' and proposes a corpus-driven procedure based on the criteria of keyness, range and evenness of distribution to select academic words that could be part of a common-core academic vocabulary syllabus. In the second part, the author offers a thorough analysis of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) and describes the factors that account for learners' difficulties in academic writing. She then focuses on the role of corpora, and more particularly, learner corpora, in EAP material design. It is the first monograph in which Granger's (1996) Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis is used to compare 10 ICLE learner sub-corpora, in order to distinguish between linguistic features that are shared by learners from a wide range of mother tongue backgrounds and unique features that may be transfer-related. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Magali PaquotPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation ISBN: 9781441191144ISBN 10: 1441191143 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 July 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Section 1: Academic vocabulary; 1. What is academic vocabulary?; 2. A data-driven approach to the selection of academic vocabulary; Section 2: Learners' use of academic vocabulary; 3. Investigating learner language; 4. Rhetorical functions in expert academic writing; 5. Academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English; Section 3: Implications and conclusions; 6. Pedagogical implications; 7. General conclusion; References; Appendix; Subject index; Author index.ReviewsAuthor InformationMagali Paquot is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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