Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing: From Extraction to Analysis by Magali Paquot
Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing: From Extraction to Analysis by Magali Paquot
English | 22 July 2010 | ISBN: 1441130365 | 288 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | 22 July 2010 | ISBN: 1441130365 | 288 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.