ALLT2012Memo2

Allt2012Memo

ALLT2012: Lynn Flowerdew

From corpus findings to applications †

• vocabulary appraoches-
• phraseology
• functional approaches
• move structure analysis
• genre-based approaches

Vocabulary approaches †

• core academic vocabulary?
  • Coxhead
  • Paquot パクー (2010): productive vocabulary list
• discipline-specific (Hyland)
  • medical research
  • engineering textbook
    • technical and non-technical uses in specialist context

• Keywords
• statistical measures may be different

• Generalizability of the results

• Hybrid n-gram

• Wible's software (Saturday morning workshop)

• Pattern grammar
  • for V-ing structures
    • ADJ/N/V for V-ing

• Noun phrases
  • "compressed" with phrasal modifiers embedded in noun phrases (Biber & Gray 2010:2)

• Triangulated study (Ellis et al. 2008)
  • frequency counts + pedagogica relevance + psycholinguistic salience

Functional approaches †

• lexical bundles
  • Biber (2004), Cortes (2004), Hyland (2008)
• Hyland (2008)
  • research-oriented
  • text-oriented
  • participant-oriented
    • Hyland's list is too sophisticated for beginning & intermediate learners
• comments: Her argument about lexical bundles here is not really related to functions

Corpus-Driven Learning †

• Familiarise
  • e.g. issues
    • subject area: economic use

• Functional approaches: bottomo-up
  • while

Genre-based approaches †

• Swalesian tradition
  • Problem-Question genre (Bhatia et al. 2004)
  • Legal essay genre (Weber 2001)
    • Conventionalized text types, where move analysis is easy to conduct

• Legal English
  • concordancing: Assuming, assumption/ consider. considering, consideration

• Psychology RAs (Bianchi & Pazzaglia 2007)
  • Students first subdivided article into moves intuitively
  • Follow-up data-driven lexico-grammar tasks

• Computer Science RAs (Chang & Kuo 2011)

• Cross-disciplinary move schema for RA method sections, 32 disciplines (Cotos et al. 2012)

• Hong Kong PolyU Corpus of Research Articles 39 disciplines (Lin & Evans, in press 2012)
  • Good resource for thesis writing (5 million words)

• e.g. "surprising"
  • "NOT surprising" often associated with negative form
  • "NOT surprising, given that ..." quite fixed lexical grammar patterns

SLA research †

• Noticing --> inductive approach
  • Teacher-directed "noticing" activities (Boulton 2011)
  • Not many empirical research

• Vygotskyan sociocultural theories
  • interaction with peers

• Report writing module (Flowerdew 2008)