Profiling the Academic Word List (AWL) in a financial corpus

System

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 402-411

  Li, Yongyan ^a   Qian, David D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

AWL coverage; Financial corpus; Specialized corpus; The Academic Word List (AWL); Vocabulary teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956171065     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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