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Special Issue on 'Corpus-based EAP pedagogy'
The Journal of English for Academic Purposes (JEAP) is now soliciting
manuscript proposals (500 words) for a special issue entitled
'Corpus-based EAP pedagogy'.
In 2000, the editors of the /English for Specific Purposes Journal/
(Volume 19, Issue 2) predicted that, 'although the successful use of
corpora in classroom teaching of ESP work has been reported, it may well
turn out that the most extensive and valuable use of computer-based
corpora will be for ESP research purposes rather than for teaching
purposes' (p. 98). The use of corpora in EAP research, as a source of
texts for analysis, and of insights into language patterning in academic
discourse certainly has grown steadily in the last two decades; in five
issues of JEAP in 2005–6, for example, forty percent of the articles
reported research that was largely corpus-based. The use of corpora in
EAP pedagogy, however, has increased at a slower rate, and it may well
be that the prediction of the ESPJ editors will prove true. The purpose
of this special issue of JEAP is to assess the development of
corpus-informed and corpus-based approaches to EAP pedagogies, and to
highlight both issues and practice in the exploitation of corpora, by
teachers and students, in EAP contexts.
This issue will encompass a range of papers relating to the uses of
language corpora in EAP teaching, research and materials development,
with the emphasis on applications to pedagogy. Possible topics include,
but are not limited to:
* the development of new resources for exploitation in EAP teaching,
either in the form of data (corpora) or tools (query interfaces), at
local, national or international levels;
* survey of corpus-based research and pedagogic practice in a variety of
EAP contexts;
* the creation and investigation of small corpora by learners in EAP
contexts;
* empirical research into the contribution of corpora in direct teaching;
* the uses of corpus findings in the development of EAP teaching materials.
Expected timeline for the special issue:
By 27 October, 2006: Five hundred-word proposals for articles to be
submitted by email to the guest editor Paul Thompson
(p.a.thompson@reading.ac.uk)
1 December, 2006: Responses to prospective authors to be provided
16 March, 2007: Completed articles should be submitted to guest editor
18 May, 2007: Decisions for acceptance by guest editor to be determined
Final manuscript preparations/revisions to take place between mid-May
and mid-June 2007
Submission guidelines are available from the Journal of English for
Academic Purposes (JEAP) website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jeap
For additional information, please contact Paul Thompson
(p.a.thompson@reading.ac.uk).
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Dr Paul Thompson
School Director of Postgraduate Studies
Department of Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and European Studies
The University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA
Tel. +44 118 3786472
URL: www.rdg.ac.uk/app_ling/
Special Issue on 'Corpus-based EAP pedagogy'
The Journal of English for Academic Purposes (JEAP) is now soliciting
manuscript proposals (500 words) for a special issue entitled
'Corpus-based EAP pedagogy'.
In 2000, the editors of the /English for Specific Purposes Journal/
(Volume 19, Issue 2) predicted that, 'although the successful use of
corpora in classroom teaching of ESP work has been reported, it may well
turn out that the most extensive and valuable use of computer-based
corpora will be for ESP research purposes rather than for teaching
purposes' (p. 98). The use of corpora in EAP research, as a source of
texts for analysis, and of insights into language patterning in academic
discourse certainly has grown steadily in the last two decades; in five
issues of JEAP in 2005–6, for example, forty percent of the articles
reported research that was largely corpus-based. The use of corpora in
EAP pedagogy, however, has increased at a slower rate, and it may well
be that the prediction of the ESPJ editors will prove true. The purpose
of this special issue of JEAP is to assess the development of
corpus-informed and corpus-based approaches to EAP pedagogies, and to
highlight both issues and practice in the exploitation of corpora, by
teachers and students, in EAP contexts.
This issue will encompass a range of papers relating to the uses of
language corpora in EAP teaching, research and materials development,
with the emphasis on applications to pedagogy. Possible topics include,
but are not limited to:
* the development of new resources for exploitation in EAP teaching,
either in the form of data (corpora) or tools (query interfaces), at
local, national or international levels;
* survey of corpus-based research and pedagogic practice in a variety of
EAP contexts;
* the creation and investigation of small corpora by learners in EAP
contexts;
* empirical research into the contribution of corpora in direct teaching;
* the uses of corpus findings in the development of EAP teaching materials.
Expected timeline for the special issue:
By 27 October, 2006: Five hundred-word proposals for articles to be
submitted by email to the guest editor Paul Thompson
(p.a.thompson@reading.ac.uk)
1 December, 2006: Responses to prospective authors to be provided
16 March, 2007: Completed articles should be submitted to guest editor
18 May, 2007: Decisions for acceptance by guest editor to be determined
Final manuscript preparations/revisions to take place between mid-May
and mid-June 2007
Submission guidelines are available from the Journal of English for
Academic Purposes (JEAP) website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jeap
For additional information, please contact Paul Thompson
(p.a.thompson@reading.ac.uk).
--
***************************************
Dr Paul Thompson
School Director of Postgraduate Studies
Department of Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and European Studies
The University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA
Tel. +44 118 3786472
URL: www.rdg.ac.uk/app_ling/