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| Title | Book Review: Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning |
| Body | From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-3033.html#1 Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning Gavioli, Laura Philip M. McCarthy: Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis As a teacher and researcher in corpus linguistics, I have become increasingly frustrated over recent years by the mysterious lack of corpus analysis applications. There has been an avalanche of articles, books, and conferences dedicated to the glories of corpus linguistics and yet, there has been a dearth of practical, simple, solid, and (above all) interesting pedagogical applications. For me then, corpus linguistics in the classroom has been like Mars glittering in the night sky: so full of possibility and yet no one can tell us much more than there might be water there. To justify a journey to Mars, we need to know what we could do with it once we have invested so much to get there. To justify the investment in building corpora for the classroom, we need to know, clearly, how we investigate corpora, and what corpora offer us that a traditional classroom text book does not. In "Exploring corpora for ESP learning", I am happy to report that the Eagle has landed, and that there is an abundance of not only of water but life itself. Read the complete review at http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-3033.html#1 . |
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