Can I have a word please? - Supporting learning at Foundation level through use of a corpus of student-generated texts.

Bruce, M; Rees, S

Abstract

International students typically expect to encounter academic language problems and to have to acquire a new vocabulary for their studies. However, the need to expand their (native speaker) vocabulary to include general academic as well as discipline-specific language comes as a shock to many home students. The FOCUS project is a concordancing programme which we have created at Durham University to allow Foundation students to explore a corpus of student-generated texts in order to improve their own writing. The project also provides a suite of activities to guide students through corpus searches in order to enhance their understanding of both subject-specific and general academic vocabulary.

Citation

Bruce, M., & Rees, S. (2013). Can I have a word please? - Supporting learning at Foundation level through use of a corpus of student-generated texts. Online educational research journal, 4(12),

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2013
• Deposit Date: Jan 8, 2014
• Journal: Online Educational Research Journal
• Publisher: School of Education, Durham University
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 12
• Publisher URL: http://www.oerj.org/View?action=viewPaper&paper=112