Conference Programme

Block 1E: ESP  2

Chair: Ute Römer

Maggie Charles: Building and Using Do-it-Yourself Corpora with EAP Students

Phoenix Lam: Email Communication in the Academic Sector and its Implications for Teaching

Kanglong Liu: Towards a Corpus-Assisted Approach to Translation Teaching: Potential and Problems

Posters : 

Carmen Dayrell, Arnaldo Candido Jr, Sandra Aluisio, Stella Tagnin: Phraseological preferences and rhetorical moves in English scientific abstracts: similarities and differences in student and published writing when presenting the research’s purposes and results

Shozo Yokoyama, Seisuke Yasunami,Naoko Kawakita and  Chizuko Suzuki : The direct application of medical corpora to academic writing: Specialized concordance search interface and Moodle-based courseware

Block 2E:  Multi word units

Chair: Guy Aston

Svetlana Vetchinnikova: EFL learners’ lexical choices in context: Is there evidence for the idiom principle?

Andreas Eriksson: Pedagogical perspectives on bundles: teaching bundles to doctoral students of biochemistry

Joanna  Jendryczka- Wierszycka: Semantic analysis of English phrasal verbs: an attempt to remedy learners' struggle.  

Poster:

Anne Li-E Liu: Casting lexical anchors: an exploration of multiword concessives in BNC and two learner corpora.

Block 2B: Special corpora

Chair: Ana Frankenberg Garcia 

Martin Warren: Online profession-specific corpora as language resources for professionals

Angelika Breiteneder: ELF and ELT: Insights from VOICE

Lunch