Using both a corpus and dictionary can help in recalling definitions and collocations of new vocabulary.
Nurmukhamedov (2017) looked at the lexical coverage of TED Talks in order to understand how much vocabulary a person needs to know to understand these presentations, and whether the disciplinary topic changes that number.
This paper explores students attempts at Grammatical Metaphor through the use of nominalization. Student errors with nominalization are identified to create a framework of the intermediary stages students pass through as their writing develops.
This article reports on a corpus-based study of the discourse of university lectures, which aimed to identify linguistic patterns that could help EAP / L2 students with note-taking. It finds some ‘standard’ formulaic expressions, as well as other discourse markers used by lecturers to highlight key terms or concepts.
Durrant’s research project on the Academic Vocabulary List reminds us of the need to consider all vocabulary lists with a critical eye
Okamoto (2015) looks at the question of how well intuition matches corpus frequency and whether intuition is a good measure when selecting vocabulary to teach.
This study examines the rhetorical moves frequently found in different phases of EAP lessons and the particular language features common in each phase. The insight from this study may enable teachers to create more accessible and easily navigable lessons.
Corpus use with BNCweb results in gains in writing fluency and accuracy but not complexity.