[Corpora-List] Criteria for an ESP Vocabulary List

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Michael

> You should be aware, though, that this is not a project you can > complete
within a few weeks.
This kind of corpus-building can be done very quickly using BootCaT and
related tools, eg WebBootCaT (available at http://www.sketchengine.co.uk ).
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.

Adam


2008/4/26 <M.I.Friedbichler at uibk.ac.at>:

>  *> If you are asking in what context it is used here, I want to make
> reference*
> *> vocabulary lists to make a course to teach students English. They are*
> *> agriculture students and law students. Obviously high class graduate
> and*
> *> masters level students.*
> *> Regards*
> *> *
> *> Muhammad Shakir Aziz*
>
>
> Dear 'true friend' (Muhammad?),
>
> 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.
>
> 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 context- driven 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.
>
> 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.
>
> HTH and good luck with your ESP project(s)!
>
> Michael Friedbichler
> EMP lecturer
> Innsbruck Medical University
> AUSTRIA
>
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