Use of Google Scholar in corpus-driven EAP research

Březina, Václav

doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2012.08.001

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“…In Reynolds’ ( 2015b ) study, 25 Taiwanese medical students were encouraged to exploit a web-based English/Chinese bilingual parallel corpus collocational concordancer for self-editing their academic writing. In addition to the above-mentioned corpora, web as a corpus and concordancer has also attracted a lot of attention and the search engine is suggested as a super corpus in some studies (Resnik and Smith 2003 ; Resnik and Elkiss 2005 ; Sha 2010 ; Conroy 2010 ; Brezina 2012 ; Yoon 2016 ). These studies revealed the distinctive merits and demerits of different corpora, thus it’s rather difficult to conclude which type of corpora is better.…”

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The effects of data-driven learning activities on EFL learners’ writing development

Luo

2016

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Data-driven learning has been proved as an effective approach in helping learners solve various writing problems such as correcting lexical or grammatical errors, improving the use of collocations and generating ideas in writing, etc. This article reports on an empirical study in which data-driven learning was accomplished with the assistance of the user-friendly BNCweb, and presents the evaluation of the outcome by comparing the effectiveness of BNCweb and a search engine Baidu which is most commonly used as reference resource by Chinese learners of English as a foreign language. The quantitative results about 48 Chinese college students revealed that the experimental group which used BNCweb performed significantly better in the post-test in terms of writing fluency and accuracy, as compared with the control group which used the search engine Baidu. However, no significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of writing complexity. The qualitative results about the interview revealed that learners generally showed a positive attitude toward the use of BNCweb but there were still some problems of using corpora in the writing process, thus the combined use of corpora and other types of reference resource was suggested as a possible way to counter the potential barriers for Chinese learners of English.

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The effects of data-driven learning activities on EFL learners’ writing development

Luo

2016

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“…It enables users to search and find relevant works across various disciplines, scholarly research, and sources namely, articles, abstracts, books, theses, and court opinions from professional societies, academic publishers, universities, online repositories and other websites (https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html). Google Scholar helps students improve their academic writing (Brezina, 2012).…”

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Perceptions of ESL Students about Using Web-Concordancing and Language Reference Resources in Academic Writing

Shakib

Samad

Razali

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Humanities and Social Sciences Letters

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“…Online resource materials have increasingly attracted the attention of researchers in the tertiary education sector (see Brezina, 2012;Kasper, 2000a), and methods are being developed to extract technical vocabulary from source texts and corpora for shaping ESP learning materials (see Kwary, 2011). Furthermore, the value of small, specialized and self-built corpora has been recognized by researchers (see Charles, 2012).…”

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A higher-education teaching module for integrating industry content and language through online recruitment advertisements

Tatzl

2018

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Empirical evaluations of practical teaching units integrating content and language in higher education are rare and deserve more attention. The current article aims to narrow this gap by providing an empirical study of an integrating content and language in higher education (ICLHE, Smit & Dafouz, 2012) teaching module. It investigates the effectiveness of a content-based English for specific purposes module in tertiary aeronautical engineering education, which incorporates recruitment advertisements as online resources. The study adopted a mixed-methods approach and surveyed three aeronautical engineering student groups (N = 141) over three consecutive years on their perceptions of the module’s learning outcomes. This longitudinal survey was complemented by a teacher-assessed writing task and a qualitative content analysis of online recruitment advertisements (N = 80) in a self-built corpus. All three year groups rated the 10 questionnaire statements on a 5-point Likert scale rather equally, thus suggesting a similar perception of academic achievement stemming from the module’s completion. This student view was supported by the results of the writing assignment. In short, the module’s effectiveness was corroborated both quantitatively and qualitatively, which identifies this teaching concept as a feasible way forward.

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Use of Google Scholar in corpus-driven EAP research

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

The effects of data-driven learning activities on EFL learners’ writing development

The effects of data-driven learning activities on EFL learners’ writing development

Perceptions of ESL Students about Using Web-Concordancing and Language Reference Resources in Academic Writing

A higher-education teaching module for integrating industry content and language through online recruitment advertisements

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