Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing: From Extraction to Analysis (Corpus and Discourse) - Softcover

Paquot, Magali

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441114505 ISBN 13: 9781441114501

Publisher: Continuum, 2012

Synopsis

Academic 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.

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About the Author

Magali Paquot is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441114505
• ISBN 13: 9781441114501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286