A Corpus-Informed Text Reconstruction Resource for Learning About the Language of Scientific Abstracts

Hartwell, Laura M.; Jacques, Marie-Paule

doi:10.14705/rpnet.2012.000037

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“…The present study aims at providing students with controlled learning material: in particular selected concordances. To this end, we took part in an ongoing experiment which consists in integrating our corpus data in a classroom-friendly version of Scientext, designed for non-native speakers of both French and English (Tutin, Falaise 2013;Hartwell, Jacques, 2012). ScienQuest is a feature-rich environment designed for linguists to freely search corpora.…”

Section: Integration Into a New Online Tool: Dicorpusmentioning

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Integrating controlled corpus data in the classroom: a case-study of English NPs for French students in specialised translation

Almeida¹,

García²,

González-Ruiz³

Corpus-Based Studies on Language Varieties

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This paper looks at the alternation of two complex English noun phrases in scientific English, which poses a challenge to French students in the specialised translation classroom. Indeed, no such alternation is observed in French. Starting from a preliminary study of a first series of constructions, we seek confirmation for generalisations about the constructions' preferred context of occurrence in a new sample of highly frequent constructions. We then discuss how the results of those analyses can be integrated in the translation classroom, through a new online tool aimed at raising students' awareness of this contrastive problem and helping them choose one or the other construction according to a set of corpus-based clues.

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Section: Integration Into a New Online Tool: Dicorpusmentioning

confidence: 99%