Concordancing and the teaching of the vocabulary of academic English

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-280

  Thurstun, Jennifer ^a   Candlin, Christopher N ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Academic vocabulary; Concordancing; Corpus based teaching; Grammar in context

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012992385     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0889-4906(97)00013-6     Document Type: Article

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