Exploiting a corpus of business letters from a phraseological, functional perspective

Flowerdew, Lynne

doi:10.1017/s0958344012000043

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“…Four crucial functional and sign speech aspects are found in dicteme: nomination, predication, thematisation and stylization (Flowerdew, 2012). Nomination implies designation of the common situation expressed in dicteme.…”

Section: The Structural and Functional Organization Of Partnership Anmentioning

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Functional And Stylistic Particularities Of English Partnership And Proposal Letters

Osiyanova¹

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Section: The Structural and Functional Organization Of Partnership Anmentioning

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Functional And Stylistic Particularities Of English Partnership And Proposal Letters

Osiyanova¹

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Reasoning about why it was helpful, they highlighted the advantages and disadvantages of the type of activity they completed. The advantages can be summarized as: plentiful exposure; attention to form, meaning and function; attention to the quality of writing; variety of contexts; and variety of syntactic structures -all viewed as beneficial effects in the DDL literature (see Bernardini, 2002;Flowerdew, 2012).…”

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Enhancing writing pedagogy with learner corpus data

Cotos

2014

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Learner corpora have become prominent in language teaching and learning, enhancing data-driven learning (DDL) pedagogy by promoting 'learning driven data' in the classroom. This study explores the potential of a local learner corpus by investigating the effects of two types of DDL activities, one relying on a native-speaker corpus (NSC) and the second combining native-speaker and learner corpora. Both types of activities aimed at improving second language writers' knowledge of linking adverbials and were based on a preliminary analysis of adverbial use in the local learner corpus produced by 31 study participants. Quantitative and qualitative data, obtained from writing samples, pre/post-tests, and questionnaires, were converged through concurrent triangulation. The results showed an increase in frequency, diversity and accuracy in all participants' use of adverbials, but more significant improvement was made by the students who were exposed to the corpus containing their own writing. The findings of this study are thus interpreted as suggestive that combining learner and native-speaker data is a feasible and effective practice, which can be readily integrated in DDL-based instruction with positive impact.

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“…Over the past decade most research in CALL has emphasized the use of Web-based material as a corpus for enhancing learners’ English learning (Campbell, McDonnell, Meinardi & Richardson, 2007; Flowerdew, 2012), especially vocabulary development (Hazelbeck & Saito, 2009; Wu, Witten & Franken, 2010). Some researchers have focused on the use of the computer workbench to facilitate the learning activities of interpreters (Shandrelli, 2001; Lim, 2013) or to assist in the tasks of translator/interpreters (Ahmad, Kugler & Thurmair, 1995; Shimohata, Kitamura, Sukehiro & Murata, 2001).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Engaging student interpreters in vocabulary building: Web search with computer workbench

Lim

2014

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This paper investigates the usefulness of Web portals in a workbench for assisting student interpreters in the search for and collection of vocabulary. The experiment involved a class of fifteen English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student interpreters, who were required to equip themselves with the appropriate English vocabulary to handle an interpreting task they had been assigned. The subjects were given the same topic for vocabulary building in two stagesone stage without and the other stage with the use of the workbench. They were not allowed to repeat vocabulary items in the two stages. They documented their experience in vocabulary preparation in the first stage, and provided think-aloud protocols for the second stage. They also completed a questionnaire and submitted two portfolios. The vocabulary portfolios compiled during the two stages were then compared. The results indicate that, with the use of the workbench, the subjects were more efficient in performing the task of building vocabulary by searching for the required vocabulary, and were able to build a vocabulary portfolio that was larger in size and richer in variety. The data also reveal that most students make use of Web portals that have a specific focus, rather than general search engines. The findings provide important information to support the use of the workbench as a tool for training EFL student interpreters in vocabulary building, and also show that guided Web portals are essential for users who need to perform Web-based language learning activities to achieve efficient search results.

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Exploiting a corpus of business letters from a phraseological, functional perspective

Cited by 17 publications

References 35 publications

Functional And Stylistic Particularities Of English Partnership And Proposal Letters

Functional And Stylistic Particularities Of English Partnership And Proposal Letters

Enhancing writing pedagogy with learner corpus data

Engaging student interpreters in vocabulary building: Web search with computer workbench

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