Case Study on the Development of a Computer-Based Support Tool for Assisting Japanese Software Engineers with Their English Writing Needs

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 194-209

  Narita, Masumi ^a   Kurokawa, Kazuya ^b   Utsuro, Takehito ^c  

^a RICOH COMPANY LTD   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrastive rhetoric; Corpus linguistics; English as a foreign language (EFL); English for specific purposes (ESP); English language teaching (ELT); Language support tool; Writing pedagogy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; LINGUISTICS; TECHNICAL WRITING;

COMPUTER BASED SUPPORT TOOLS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 0141638676     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2003.816793     Document Type: Article

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