disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for specific academic purposes /
Peter Crosthwaite, University of Queensland, Lisa Cheung, The University of Hong Kong.
Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2019]
1 online resource.
Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL),
1388-0373
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Learning the Language of Dentistry; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Corpora and specialised English in the university curriculum; References; Chapter 1. Getting to the 'root' of the problem: Introduction to the volume; 1.1 EAP, EGAP, ESAP, and the ESAP conundrum for non-specialist disciplinary language tutors; 1.2 Introduction to Section 1; 1.2.1 Definitions of register/genre; 1.2.2 Analysing register; 1.2.3 Genres for analysis; 1.3 Chapter 2 -- 'Extracting' the linguistic dimensions of dentistry experimental research articles
1.4 Chapter 3 -- Persuasive stories?: Professional and novice research reports for Dental Public Health1.5 Chapter 4 -- Understanding Disciplinary vs. Non-disciplinary terminology: Insights from the dentistry case report genre; 1.6 Introduction to Section 2; 1.7 Chapter 5 -- Data-driven dentistry: Corpora, ESAP, and writing to learn; 1.8 Chapter 6 -- Putting it into (dental) 'practice': User engagement with dentistry corpora and DDL; 1.9 Chapter 7 -- Reflections on practice, future directions
2.5.4 Dimension 2: Active vs. passive2.5.5 Dimension 3: Involved vs. informational discourse; 2.5.6 Dentistry vs. General medical research reports; 2.6 Discipline-specific lexis and phraseology; 2.7 Chapter summary; Chapter 3. Persuasive stories?: Professional and novice research reports for Dental Public Health; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Corpora for investigation; 3.2.1 Professional Dentistry Corpus -- Community Dental Health; 3.2.2 Learner Corpus of Dentistry Reports; 3.3 Analysis 1: Multidimensional analysis; 3.3.1 Dimension 1 -- Narrative vs. Informative
3.3.2 Dimension 2 -- Persuasive vs. Objective3.3.3 Dimension 3 -- Tentative vs. Authoritative; 3.3.4 Dimension 4 -- Active vs. Passive; 3.3.5 Dimension 5 -- Animate vs. Inanimate; 3.4 Analysis 2: Making claims personal: Hedging, boosting and self-mention; 3.4.1 Hedging; 3.4.2 Boosting; 3.4.3 Self-mentions; 3.5 Narrative features of novice Dental Public Health writing: An NLP approach; 3.6 Chapter summary; Chapter 4. Understanding Disciplinary vs. Non-disciplinary terminology: Insights from the dentistry case report genre; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Natural language processing and ESAP
Section 1. The language of dentistry -- A corpus-based exploration of language features across the dentistry registerChapter 2. 'Extracting' the linguistic dimensions of dentistry experimental research articles; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Corpus construction; 2.3 MDA Version 1: Comparison with Biber's (1988) dimensions; 2.4 MAT analyses across Biber's (1988) dimensions; 2.5 MDA version 2: The functional dimensions of dentistry research articles; 2.5.1 Function 1 -- confirming findings as facts; 2.5.2 Function 2: Categorising patient types; 2.5.3 Dimension 1: Narrative vs. non-narrative concerns
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This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the 'language of dentistry', within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from three key genres of the dentistry discipline (published experimental research articles, case reports, and novice / professional research reports within the Dental Public Health domain), before integrating these features into ESAP pedagogy in the form of corpus-based ESAP materials that promote student-led direct engagement with disciplinary corpora - an approach known as 'data-driven learning'. This book is an addition to the field of corpus linguistics and ESAP, and is especially targeted at ESAP professionals who are required to teach disciplinary discourses but who may struggle to know what to teach as non-experts of the target discipline.