A direct application of medical corpora to academic writing: A specialized concordance search interface and Moodle-based courseware
A direct application of medical corpora to academic writing: A specialized concordance search interface and Moodle-based courseware
Author(s): Shozo Yokoyama, Chizuko Suzuki, Seisuke Yasunami, Naoko Kawakita, Ryo Ohba
Subject(s): Syntax, Lexis, Pragmatics, Higher Education , Health and medicine and law
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: English for medical purposes; writing; reading; concordancing; IMRAD;
Summary/Abstract: Despite a relatively large number of research papers discussing corpus-based discourse analysis for medicine, few attempts have been made to uncover the rhetorical distinctiveness of subdisciplines such as Genome Bio-Science, Nursing, Public Health, and Clinical Surgery. The aim of this study is to apply the frequencies of verbs (including modal verbs) found in medical research articles (RAs) among these four subdisciplines to materials development by incorporating a specialized concordance search interface and Moodle-based courseware for medical students.
Book: Input, Process and Product: Developments in Teaching and Language Corpora
- Page Range: 83-102
- Page Count: 20
- Publication Year: 2012
- Language: English
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