Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings / John M. Swales
01 Jan 1991-Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
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01 Mar 2011
TL;DR: The authors refonde ces notions du point de vue de la "lexicogrammaire" de Michael Halliday and propose egalement une methode d'analyse textuelle which s’appuie sur le role phraseologique des signes grammaticaux.
Abstract: La phraseologie et la collocation sont des phenomenes linguistiques fondamentaux. Cependant, les linguistes ont souvent une conception assez limitee de ces termes (la phraseologie est associee aux « expressions idiomatiques », les collocations considerees comme des « sequences figees »). Dans cet article, je refonde ces notions du point de vue de la « lexicogrammaire » de Michael Halliday. Mon objectif est de demontrer comment ces notions, dans l’optique de la theorie systemique fonctionnelle, seraient utiles pour l’anglais de specialite (ASP). Je propose egalement une methode d’analyse textuelle qui s’appuie sur le role phraseologique des signes grammaticaux. Loin d’etre « sans collocations », il est en effet possible de demontrer que les mots grammaticaux sont des elements stables dans des « cascades » d’expressions relativement previsibles mais aussi productives. L’identification de schemas lexicogrammaticaux de ce type devrait constituer une etape de base dans l’analyse systematique des textes d’ASP.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse how adult learners on a professional development course learn and develop through online dialogue using Wenger's community of practice framework, and assesses whether the concept of legitimate peripheral participation is useful in relation to this specific case study in which the students are practitioners and parents of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Abstract: This paper analyses how adult learners on a professional development course learn and develop through online dialogue. The research uses Wenger’s community of practice framework, and assesses whether the concept of ‘legitimate peripheral participation’ is useful in relation to this specific case study in which the students are practitioners and parents of individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). The study focuses on peer‐to‐peer learning and analyses a sample of asynchronous online discussions from three separate online tutorial groups. The first part of the study combines quantitative analysis of distribution patterns, with qualitative discourse analysis that measures central concepts associated with communities of practice. The second part of the study addresses whether the concept of ‘legitimate peripheral participation’ is useful in this context. The contribution of one key individual in each group is analysed in order to provide a narrative about how that person communicates with the other...
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14 Nov 2011
TL;DR: The authors describes a process by which a thought-sound language evolves divisions, and a language takes place with its linguistic units in between these two morphemes, creating a mutually complementary delimitation of units.
Abstract: Language acts as an intermediary between thought and sound in such a way that the
combination of both necessarily produces a mutually complementary delimitation of units.
Thought, chaotic by nature, is made precise by this process of segmentation. But what
happens is neither a transformation of thought into matter, nor a transformation of sound
into ideas. What takes place is a somewhat mysterious process by which “thought-sound”
evolves divisions, and a language takes place with its linguistic units in between these two
amorphous masses.
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TL;DR: English Language Support is arguably the most important academic support service which British institutions can offer to their international students as mentioned in this paper, however, it is unlikely that this service will be of high quality unless it is provided by staff who are adequately resourced and whose work is acknowledged by the institution as playing an important part in a responsible recruitment strategy.
Abstract: English Language support is arguably the most important academic support service which British institutions can offer to their international students. However, it is unlikely that this service will be of high quality unless it is provided by staff who are adequately resourced and whose work is acknowledged by the institution as playing an important part in a responsible recruitment strategy. The results of this survey offer insights into language support provision and the institutional position of the staff providing this service.
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: The 25th edition of the European Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) was held in Barcelona, Spain in 2017 as discussed by the authors, where researchers and practitioners share their novel and insightful work on the use of technology in language learning and teaching.
Abstract: 2017 saw the 25th conference for the European Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL). Every year, EUROCALL serves as a rich venue to share research, practice, new ideas, and to make new international friends – and this year was no different. It is an innovative and inspiring conference in which researchers and practitioners share their novel and insightful work on the use of technology in language learning and teaching. This volume of short papers captures the pioneering spirit of the conference and you will find here both inspiration and ideas for theory and practice.
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