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Scripta Manent: ICT in
teaching languages for specific purposes
Volume 3/1
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Š. Godnič Vičič |
Editorial HTML | PDF |
| :: J. Krajka | Online Lexicological
Tools
in ESP – Towards an Approach to Strategy Training ABSTRACT: Together
with great
proliferation of online resources on the one hand and a striking lack
of commercially published materials for specific ESP domains on the
other, the ESP teacher needs to reflect on using Internet materials
judiciously in the language classroom. An indispensable element of the
teaching process in any context is effective resourcing, or the ability
to find, evaluate and use reference tools of various kinds. This
strategy is also necessary in the ESP context, and the range of
available resources goes beyond dictionaries only and encompasses,
among others, specialized dictionaries, glossaries, terminology
databanks.
HTML | PDFThe purpose of the present paper is to outline the procedure of online resourcing, by giving specific steps for the training of the skill based on ESP materials of various types. The theoretical discussion of strategy training will be substantiated with the practical activities for the procedure. |
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A. Curado Fuentes |
Lexical
Acquisition in ESP via Corpus Tools: Two Case Studies ABSTRACT: This
paper aims to
illustrate the application of a corpus-based approach in teaching ESP
(English for Specific Purposes) by means of two case studies: Group 1
in 2004/2005 and Group 2 the following year. The first group of
university students approached lexical material by exploiting
micro-skills such as identifying key repetitions, formulating semantic
prosody, finding best equivalents in Spanish, etc. The second group
used the same academic corpus via electronic resources. According to
the overall results, the second group of students outperformed the
first one in their use of lexical input and the main findings point to
the observation of their improved answers regarding the production of
lexis. The tests and questionnaires served as chief control instruments
at the end of the courses.
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| :: I. Kozlova | Studying Problem
Solving
through Group Discussion in Chat Rooms ABSTRACT: In the
present article
we use a chat conversations’ corpus to study the process of resolving
language problems. Our corpus includes chat conversations which took
place between LSP students engaged in correcting errors in their peers’
summaries. The participants worked in groups and used the Windows
Messenger program for communication within the group. Their task also
included making use of electronic dictionaries and other reference
materials. The conversations’ corpus obtained as a result of this
exercise was analyzed holistically for possible indicators of each
particular stage of the problem solving process. Later these indicators
were validated throughout the entire corpus. Each problem solving
process was thus represented as a chain of indicators and acceptability
was determined for each error correction. The resulting problem solving
chains were used to prove our hypotheses concerning internal and
external support in text reproduction.
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M. Šetinc |
Militarwörterbuch
Slowenisch-Deutsch
(Wehrrecht und Innerer Dienst) / Vojaški slovar, Slovensko-Nemški
(Vojaško pravo in Notranja služba) and Militarwörterbuch Slowenisch-Deutsch (Infanterie) / Vojaški slovar, Slovensko-Nemški (Pehota): A review HTML | PDF |
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