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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">> You should be aware, though, that this is not a project you can > complete within a few weeks. </span><br></div>
<div>This kind of corpus-building can be done very quickly using BootCaT and related tools, eg WebBootCaT (available at <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/">http://www.sketchengine.co.uk</a> ). The basic process takes a few minutes, and a series of iterations, to refine and improve the corpus, may be a day or two's work. We also build in lemmatising, POS-tagging and loading into a corpus query tool.</div>
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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: <<a href="http://www.thieme.de/detailseiten/9783131174628.html?1209198305" target="_blank">http://www.thieme.de/detailseiten/9783131174628.html?1209198305</a>',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>
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<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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