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Academic vocabulary in learner writing : from extraction to analysis /
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 evenne...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum,
2010.
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| Colección: | Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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' difficultie. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-256) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781441191144 1441191143 9781474211697 1474211690 9781441102195 1441102191 1282710583 9781282710580 9786612710582 6612710586 1441114505 9781441114501 |