Ebook: Learning the language of dentistry : disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for specific academic purposes
Author: Cheung Lisa Mei Ling, Crosthwaite Peter
- Tags: English language -- Medical English, Dentistry -- Terminology, Corpora (Linguistics), Language and languages -- Study and teaching, Dentistry
- Series: Studies in corpus linguistics 93.
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Language: English
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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 Read more...