Collocation and technicality in EAP engineering

Ward, Jeremy

doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2006.10.001

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“…Academic language such as the language used in science, may not differ very much in structure and vocabulary from language used in daily social interactions (Durrant, 2009;Gledhill, 2000;Menon and Mukundan, 2010;Peacock, 2012;Trimble, 1985) but it usually contains vocabulary, grammatical patterns and phraseology particular to that discipline and discourse. Research through decades has shown that one of the areas of difficulty and confusion in science discourse concerns lexis, especially that of lexical collocations and sub-technical vocabulary (Gledhill, 1996(Gledhill, , 2000Herbert, 1965;Peacock, 2012;Trimble, 1985;Ward, 2007).…”

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“…Recent publications and studies on the language used in the science and technical subjects have thrown some light on collocations and multi-word units (Biber, Conrad and Cortes, 2004;Durrant, 2009;Gledhill, 2000;Marco, 2000;Mudraya, 2006;Peacock, 2012;Ward, 2007). However, most of these studies have been on collocational behavior observed in research articles, with the exception of Mudraya (2006) who looked at formulaic multi-word units or collocations in her Student Engineering English Corpus which consisted of 13 engineering texts and Ward (2007) who looked at specific nouns and their collocations in Chemical Engineering textbooks.…”

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“…However, most of these studies have been on collocational behavior observed in research articles, with the exception of Mudraya (2006) who looked at formulaic multi-word units or collocations in her Student Engineering English Corpus which consisted of 13 engineering texts and Ward (2007) who looked at specific nouns and their collocations in Chemical Engineering textbooks.…”

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Collocations of High Frequency Noun Keywords in Prescribed Science Textbooks

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Mukundan

2012

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This paper analyses the discourse of science through the study of collocational patterns of high frequency noun keywords in science textbooks used by upper secondary students in Malaysia. Research has shown that one of the areas of difficulty in science discourse concerns lexis, especially that of collocations. This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of the lexical collocations, specifically the noun/noun (NN), noun/adjective(AN) and verb/noun(VN) combinations, of high-frequency noun keywords in this science corpus. The study found that the NN and AN syntactic combinations were the more predominant combination type among the collocations of the noun keywords. Most of the collocations have been found to fall into the category between free and restricted combinations. In addition, the analysis have also uncovered clusters of overlapping collocations which show a tendency towards the free end of the restricted category of combinations.

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Collocations of High Frequency Noun Keywords in Prescribed Science Textbooks

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Mukundan

2012

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“…Corpus-based research of academic and professional discourse has revealed the pervasiveness of collocation in this type of discourse (Biber, 2006;Biber et al, 1999Biber et al, , 2004Cortés, 2004;Coxhead, 2008;Gledhill, 2000, Luzón, 2000, Ward, 2007 and has thrown some light on the nature of academic phraseology. Some researchers have focused on extended collocations that frequently co-occur in a register, referred to as "lexical bundles" (Biber et al, 1999;Cortés, 2004) or "clusters" (Hyland, 2008), e.g.…”

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“…Similarly, research on collocations deriving from complex noun phrase formation (e.g. reaction time, critical value, stable system) has shown that these collocations are also highly discipline specific (Ward, 2007).…”

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Exploring atypical verb+noun combinations in learner technical writing

Marco¹

2011

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Professional and academic discourse is characterised by a specific phraseology, which usually poses problems for students. This paper investigates atypical verb+noun collocations in a corpus of English technical writing of Spanish students. I focus on the type of verbs that most frequently occurred in these awkward or questionable combinations and attempt to explore the reasons why the learners deviate from NS's norms. The analysis indicates that these learners tend to have problems with a set of sub-technical and high-frequency verbs. Deviant combinations involving these verbs are frequently the result of a deficient knowledge of the phraseology of academic and technical discourse. The unawareness of collocations that are typical of this discourse often leads students to create V+N combinations by relying on the "Open Choice Principle" (Sinclair, 1991) or by using patterns from their mother tongue.KEYWORDS: learner corpora, technical writing, collocation, sub-technical vocabulary, high-frequency verbs. RESUMENEl discurso profesional y académico se caracteriza por una fraseología específica, que suele plantear problemas a los estudiantes. Este artículo investiga colocaciones de verbo+nombre atípicas en un corpus de textos técnicos en inglés escritos por estudiantes españoles. El estudio se centra en los verbos que más frecuentemente aparecen en estas combinaciones atípicas y explora las razones por las que los estudiantes se desvían de la norma. El análisis indica que estos estudiantes suelen tener problemas con un grupo de verbos sub-técnicos y verbos de alta frecuencia. Las combinaciones atípicas en las que estos verbos aparecen son frecuentemente el resultado de un conocimiento deficiente de la fraseología del discurso académico y técnico. El desconocimiento de colocaciones que son típicas de este discurso a menudo lleva a los estudiantes a crear combinaciones basándose en el "principio de opción abierta" (Sinclair, 1991) o a usar colocaciones prestadas de su lengua materna.

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English for Science and Technology

Parkinson

2012

The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes

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Collocation and technicality in EAP engineering

Cited by 49 publications

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Collocations of High Frequency Noun Keywords in Prescribed Science Textbooks

Collocations of High Frequency Noun Keywords in Prescribed Science Textbooks

Exploring atypical verb+noun combinations in learner technical writing

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