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Krishnamurthy, Ramesh; Kosem, Iztok – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2007
UK universities are accepting increasing numbers of students whose L1 is not English on a wide range of programmes at all levels. These students require additional support and training in English, focussing on their academic disciplines. Corpora have been used in EAP since the 1980s, mainly for research, but a growing number of researchers and…
Descriptors: Internet, Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Helms-Park, Rena; Radia, Pavlina; Stapleton, Paul – Internet and Higher Education, 2007
While the use of a search engine to find secondary sources is now a commonplace practice among undergraduate writers, recent studies show that students' online searches often lead to materials that are wholly or partially unsuitable for academic purposes. Accordingly, this project set out to determine whether using a more specialized search…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Internet, English for Academic Purposes, Information Sources