Language Manipulation in ESP Course and Test Design
Language Manipulation in ESP Course and Test Design
Author(s): Adrian CiupeSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Universitatea »Babes Bolyai« Cluj - Facultatea de St. Economice si Gestiunea Afacerilor
Keywords: Colligation; collocates; collocation; context(s); course; creative writing; curriculum; ESP; language acquisition; lexis; levels; natural language; phraseology; sample language;
Summary/Abstract: University-level ESP curricula are more often than not dependent on variables such as time, specificity and students’ existing language proficiency as well as various methodological constraints. Predominantly lexical in nature, designing custom-made courses, examination rubrics and other related content can pose serious challenges to teaching, learning and testing within a self-contained process underlying a set of available tools. This paper sets out to explore a few practical suggestions in manipulating the language present in original resources towards designing class teaching and testing materials within the above-mentioned framework. It will look at how original resources (topic-based texts) can be pooled and tagged effectively and how they can serve in creating new discrete language units / contextual backgrounds useful in the construction of level- / complexity-based teaching and testing task prompts.
Journal: Lingua. Language and Culture
- Issue Year: XX/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 9-19
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English