Collocation and technicality in EAP engineering  

Oleh:

Ward, Jeremy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of English for Academic Purposes (Full Text) vol. 6 no. 1 (2007), page 18–35.
Topik: English for academic purposes; Engineering; Collocation; Lexis; Reading; Technicality
Fulltext: Ward_Jeremy.pdf (228.6KB)

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This article explores how collocation relates to lexical technicality, and how the relationship can be exploited for teaching EAP to second-year engineering students. First, corpus data are presented to show that complex noun phrase formation is a ubiquitous feature of engineering text, and that these phrases (or collocations) are highly discipline-specific in a way that individual words are not. Next it is shown that these collocations as a class may be seen as a kind of threshold to specialised engineering discourse at the undergraduate level, and as such can be used as a basis for an EAP reading programme which is appropriate both in terms of difficulty and specialisation.

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