Publication detail

Corpora and their Benefits for the Development of ESP Presenting and Writing Skills

SOBĚSLAVSKÁ, V.

English title

Corpora and their Benefits for the Development of ESP Presenting and Writing Skills

Type

conference paper

Language

en

Original abstract

This article deals with the place of language corpora in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) pedagogy. It describes an intended PhD research project on presenting and writing skills, based on specific courses at Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The paper summarizes the aims of the research, the methodology and the planned outcomes of the project. A part of the research is a teaching component which focuses on language corpora input that could help the students with creating their presentations on various technical topics in English.

English abstract

This article deals with the place of language corpora in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) pedagogy. It describes an intended PhD research project on presenting and writing skills, based on specific courses at Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The paper summarizes the aims of the research, the methodology and the planned outcomes of the project. A part of the research is a teaching component which focuses on language corpora input that could help the students with creating their presentations on various technical topics in English.

Keywords in English

language corpus, ESP, presenting in English, learner corpus

Released

10.11.2017

Publisher

VUTIUM

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-214-5558-0

Book

Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education - Current Trends, Approaches and Issues

Edition number

1

Pages from–to

68–72

Pages count

5

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT142214,
  author="Vendula {Soběslavská},
  title="Corpora and their Benefits for the Development of ESP Presenting and Writing Skills",
  booktitle="Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education - Current Trends, Approaches and Issues",
  year="2017",
  month="November",
  pages="68--72",
  publisher="VUTIUM",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-214-5558-0"
}