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"Proper Vocabulary and Juicy Collocations": EAP Students Evaluate Do-It-Yourself Corpus-Building
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Charles, Maggie – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
This paper reports on the feasibility and value of an approach to teaching EAP writing in which students construct and examine their own individual, discipline-specific corpora. The approach was trialed in multidisciplinary classes of advanced-level students (mostly graduates). The course consisted of six weekly 2-h sessions. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, English for Academic Purposes, Writing (Composition)