Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.328

Chunmei Lu

引用次数: 4

Profiling lexical coverage in EMI academic seminars: a corpus-based study 分析 EMI 学术研讨会的词汇覆盖范围：基于语料库的研究

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.250

Irene Castellano-Risco

{"title":"Profiling lexical coverage in EMI academic seminars: a corpus-based study","authors":"Irene Castellano-Risco","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.47.250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.47.250","url":null,"abstract":"Since the implementation of the Bologna Process, Higher Education Institutions have increasingly offered English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) programmes to promote “internationalisation at home” (Beelen & Jones, 2018). While these programmes allow students to take content courses in English, EMI settings may also be challenging for learners due to the linguistic demands they may impose. However, current efforts to identify these demands have primarily relied on self-reported data, with limited consideration given to the linguistic features that may cause difficulties for EMI learners. \u0000This paper aims to address this gap by exploring the lexical demands of EMI seminars. The study analyses the lexical coverage of BNC/COCA (Nation, 2012) and ASW (Dang et al., 2017) lists in MetCLIL, a corpus comprising nine EMI seminars and 110,496 tokens, and investigates the impact of contextual variables on lexical demands. The findings indicate that (1) EMI seminars show lower lexical demands on L2 learners than L1 lectures and seminars or EMI lectures but similar to L1 tutorials, (2) academic spoken vocabulary is less frequent than in other educational settings, and (3) certain contextual factors seem to play a critical role in lexical coverage.","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141386091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of reader-inclusive authorial voice in the process of academic socialization of Management and English Philology students 读者包容性作者声音在管理学和英语语言学学生学术社会化过程中的作用

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.275

I. Lehman, Adam Bednarek, Łukasz Sułkowski

{"title":"The role of reader-inclusive authorial voice in the process of academic socialization of Management and English Philology students","authors":"I. Lehman, Adam Bednarek, Łukasz Sułkowski","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.47.275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.47.275","url":null,"abstract":"Our purpose in this paper is to throw light on the tension, or even internal conflict, tertiary-level students experience when they struggle to negotiate the rhetorical norms of disciplinary writing and the changes in their authorial voice that necessarily occur in this socialization process. With this goal in mind, we designed and conducted the study to gain insights into the perceptions Management and English Philology students have as to what constitutes a convincing authorial voice and the discourse-level features employed to realize this. Twenty-six study participants created a diverse group with regards to nationality, gender, study level, disciplinary affiliation and cultural and linguistic background. Their evaluations of voice were first analyzed from their responses to a questionnaire and then expanded through interviews. The findings reveal that a reader-inclusive voice, which requires the use of de-jargonized language, clear purpose and structure, and creates room for reader’s own interpretation, is crucial for a text to be convincing. We also argue that students’ preference for reader-sensitive academic writing should be supported and encouraged through the provision of strategic academic writing pedagogy. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"332 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141386546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Español académico como LE/L2. Destrezas, competencias y movilidad universitaria, by Susana Pastor Cesteros 学术西班牙语作为 LE/L2。技能、能力和大学流动性，苏珊娜-帕斯托尔-塞斯特罗斯著

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.336

J. Pandor

引用次数: 2

Vocabulary profile, lexical density and speech rate of science podcasts: How adequate are they for EAP and ESP listening? 科学播客的词汇概况、词汇密度和语速：它们对 EAP 和 ESP 听力有多大帮助？

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.201

Milica Vuković-Stamatović, D. Carapic

{"title":"Vocabulary profile, lexical density and speech rate of science podcasts: How adequate are they for EAP and ESP listening?","authors":"Milica Vuković-Stamatović, D. Carapic","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.47.201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.47.201","url":null,"abstract":"One potential source of authentic input for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Science and Technology (EST) listening could be science podcasts. In this study, we examine the vocabulary level of this genre, as well as the amount of the common specialized, i.e. academic and scientific vocabulary it contains. Additionally, we study its lexical density and speech rate. These properties are examined on a corpus of 126 science podcasts produced by the journal Nature, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the magazine Scientific American. These are compared against those determined for a corpus of lectures in general (the MICASE lectures) and a corpus of science lectures in particular (the MICASE’s science-lecture subsection). On the one hand, science podcasts were found to contain a good amount of both academic and scientific vocabulary, as well as to have a very similar lexical density to that of lectures. On the other hand, their vocabulary level and speech rate were somewhat higher than those of lectures. Based on the analysis, we recommend the use of science podcasts for both EAP and EST listening for advanced learners. For learners with lower proficiencies, vocabulary support and/or adjusting the speed of the science podcasts is advised. ","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"310 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141386400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics: Comparative Approaches, edited by Ole Schützler & Julia Schlüter 语料库语言学的数据和方法：比较方法》，Ole Schützler 和 Julia Schlüter 编辑

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.332

Ying Zou

引用次数: 0

Beyond expectations: (Applied) corpus linguistics and a framework for the study of spoken professional talk 超越期望：（应用）语料库语言学和专业口语研究框架

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.43

Eric Friginal

{"title":"Beyond expectations: (Applied) corpus linguistics and a framework for the study of spoken professional talk","authors":"Eric Friginal","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.47.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.47.43","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of real-world, recorded, and transcribed texts (i.e., corpora) of professional, spoken communication in the workplace has been conducted quite successfully through corpus-based approaches (Friginal, 2024). Corpus linguistics is primarily a methodological research approach to the study of language, and specifically, discourse structure, patterns, and use (Biber et al., 2010; Thompson & Friginal, 2020), with corpora serving as datasets of systematically collected, naturally-occurring registers of texts utilized for a variety of purposes. The use of corpora has become a popular approach in the quantitative analysis of the linguistic characteristics of written and spoken language, in general, and sub-registers such as oral communication in the workplace, in particular (Egbert et al., 2022; Staples, 2015). Various findings have pedagogical and, more importantly, language policy applications. This paper focuses on the important contributions of an iterative corpus-based framework to examine linguistic patterning in telephone/telephony-mediated professional discourses so as to obtain novel understandings of how talk is used and construed in these domains. Current limitations, emerging contributions from generative AI applications, and a call to action proposing training and assessment models will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141383811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

The dynamics of syntactic and lexical complexity measures in academic writing 学术写作中句法和词汇复杂性测量的动态变化

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.251

Ana Cristina Lahuerta Martínez

引用次数: 0

Expressing cause and effect in hard and soft scientific discourse 在软硬科学话语中表达因果关系

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.121

Javier Pérez-Guerra, E. Smirnova, Elena Kostareva

{"title":"Expressing cause and effect in hard and soft scientific discourse","authors":"Javier Pérez-Guerra, E. Smirnova, Elena Kostareva","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.47.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.47.121","url":null,"abstract":"This study is a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the use of cause and effect expressions in two corpora that comprise research articles in four hard and four soft disciplines, selected to represent a broad cross-section of academic discourse. Linguistic expressions of cause/effect are hypothesised to deviate in hard and soft sciences, and the differences pertain not only to key lexical categories but also to syntactic patterns. With the ultimate goal of facilitating practitioners of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes) to produce discipline-specific materials, which can effectively address the needs of learners of different sciences, this study investigates the productivity of lexical units, representative of cause/effect expressions in hard and soft scientific disciplines, as identified in the Louvain EAP Dictionary, as well as the main grammatical patterns where the former are attested. This paper shows that cause expressions are more common in soft sciences, while the expressions of effect are used in similar proportion in the two categories. As for lexical strategies, soft sciences tend to use more nouns to express cause/effect, while hard sciences rely on prepositions and conjunctions to a larger extent.","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"59 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141383667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Whose stance is it, anyway? A corpus-based study of stance expressions in science news articles 到底是谁的立场？基于语料库的科学新闻文章立场表达研究

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.93

Jordan Batchelor

引用次数: 0

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