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...

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Main Author: Paquot, Magali.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: London : Continuum, 2010.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages).
Series: Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of figures; List of tables; Introduction; Part I: Academic vocabulary; Part II: Learners' use of academic vocabulary; Part III: Pedagogical implications and conclusions; Appendix 1: Expressing cause and effect; Appendix 2: Comparing and contrasting; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index.