The Engineering Phrases List: Towards Teachable ESP Phrases  

Oleh:

Graham, Dougal

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 34th Thailand TESOL International Conference Proceedings 2014; 21st Century English Language Education: Towards Global Citizenship, The Empress Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand, January 17 – 18, 2014, page 70-90.
Topik: ESP; EAP; corpus linguistics; markedness; teachability; formulaic language
Fulltext: The engineering phrases list.pdf (1.37MB)

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This article presents the rationale and development of the Engineering Phrases List (EPL). The EPL is a 40-word list of teachable phrases for Engineering students based on a mixed-method empirical and intuitive corpus approach. First, frequent, engineering-specific, widely used phrases were identified in a corpus of engineering English. These phrases were then analyzed for markedness and ranked to determine which would be most useful from a teaching perspective and in terms of productive and receptive usefulness for learners. This research both creates a useful tool for teachers of engineering English as well as presents a methodology which should be useful for those developing similar lists in other ESP/EAP contexts. Furthermore, the implications of identifying and teaching phrases by focusing on markedness are discussed throughout the paper.

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