A corpus-based EAP course for NNS doctoral students: Moving from available specialized corpora to self-compiled corpora

Questions in English and French Research Articles in Linguistics: A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis

“…Alternatively, a teacher of academic writing could use such a corpus as a source of examples to illustrate the aspects of academic writing covered in the course. These applications could employ the use of a monolingual specialised corpus of expert writing or a comparable corpus of expert and novice writing, as in the case of Lee and Swales (2006). However, the use of bilingual and multilingual comparable corpora in language learning and teaching has received relatively little attention to date outside the context of translation studies (Laviosa 2002).…”

“…In addition, they show how a small, specialised corpus can inform the writing of novice researchers, particularly, but not exclusively, non-native speakers. Lee and Swales (2006), for example, report on a project where novice writers (non-native speaker postgraduate researchers) were asked to create a small corpus of articles in their discipline and analyse them with the aim of the novice writers improving their writing. This produced generally positive results.…”

DDL in L2 Writing in China—A Retrospect and Prospect

“…(Cresswell, 2007;Lee & Swales, 2006). Lee and Swales (2006) investigated four non-English speaking doctoral students and explored how the students made use of corpora. One of the tasks is to compile a corpus of their own writing, and compile an expert corpus, and make comparison between the two.…”

“…The international studies are mainly in-depth qualitative studies and case studies (Cresswell, 2007;Lee & Swales, 2006;Chambers & O'Sullivan, 2004;O'Sullivan & Chambers, 2006;Kennedy & Miceli, 2010), addressing concrete and specific questions. Therefore, the generalization of the research results should be exercised cautiously (C. Yoon, 2011), and some of the results are contradictory with each other.…”

“…Corpus linguistics, based on computer technology, can be utilized to analyze large data efficiently, which is a new research paradigm (L. WANG, 2008). Corpus linguistics has greatly impacted L2 (second language) writing teaching and research, widened L2 research methodology (Lee & Swales, 2006), and enriched teaching approaches (Flowerdew, 2010;Hyland, 2006). From the 1980s, corpus linguistics is one of the most promising methodologies that can inform L2 writing and research (Hyland, 2003;Bloch, 2007;Conrad, 2000Conrad, , 2008Granath, 2009;Stapleton & Radia, 2009).…”