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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i>> If you are asking in what context it is used here, I want to make reference</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i>> vocabulary lists to make a course to teach students English. They are</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i>> agriculture students and law students. Obviously high class graduate and</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i>> masters level students.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i>> Regards</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i>> Muhammad Shakir Aziz</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Dear 'true friend' (</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Muhammad?),</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">As a seasoned ESP teacher (I work with medical students) I'd
say that your first priority is the corpus or rather the corpora
you are working with. If you don't have a well-targeted body of
texts even the best statistical parameters and the most
ingenious approach to extract, filter and design useful word
lists won't be of much help. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Having been part of a 10-year project of compiling a corpus-
based lexical resource for EMP (English for Medical Purposes)
-- essentially a semi-bilingual medical dictionary and </span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">context-
driven </span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">language guide to medical English for non-Anglophone
health professionals in the German-speaking countries (see:
<http://www.thieme.de/detailseiten/9783131174628.html?1209198305',800,500>) -- I'd recommend collecting domain-specific
corpora from electronic resources at the required level as a
first step. Obviously, the corpus for agriculture students will be
quite different from the one you need for your law students.
Once you have a sizeable corpus for each domain, Wordsmith
tools should be sufficient to do the job of extracting the
vocabulary you need. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">You should be aware, though, that this is not a project you can
complete within a few weeks. The bonus of the time you need
to put into corpus building: aside from extracting a reference
vocabulary list you can use selected texts in the corpus for
teaching other language skills as well.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">HTH and good luck with your ESP project(s)!</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Michael Friedbichler</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">EMP lecturer</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Innsbruck Medical University</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">AUSTRIA</span></font></div>
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