Learning the Language of Dentistry

Disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes

Editors

Peter Crosthwaite | University of Queensland

Lisa Cheung | The University of Hong Kong

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This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry, within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from three key genres of the dentistry discipline (published experimental research articles, case reports, and novice/professional research reports within the Dental Public Health domain), before integrating these features into ESAP pedagogy in the form of corpus-based ESAP materials that promote student-led direct engagement with disciplinary corpora – an approach known as 'data-driven learning'. This book is a timely and relevant addition to the field of corpus linguistics and ESAP, and is especially targeted at ESAP professionals who are required to teach disciplinary discourses but who may struggle to know what to teach as non-experts of the target discipline.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 93] 2019. xiv, 222 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 9 August 2019

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.93

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x

Foreword: Corpora and specialised English in the university curriculum

Ken Hyland | pp. xi–xiv

Chapter 1. Getting to the ‘root’ of the problem: Introduction to the volume | pp. 1–24

Section 1. The language of dentistry – A corpus-based exploration of language features across the dentistry register

Chapter 2. ‘Extracting’ the linguistic dimensions of dentistry experimental research articles | pp. 27–54

Chapter 3. Persuasive stories? Professional and novice research reports for Dental Public Health | pp. 55–80

Chapter 4. Understanding disciplinary vs. non-disciplinary terminology: Insights from the dentistry case report genre | pp. 81–112

Section 2. Applying corpus insights for ESAP pedagogy

Chapter 5. Data-driven dentistry: Corpora, ESAP, and writing-to-learn | pp. 115–150

Chapter 6. Putting it into (dental) practice: User engagement with dentistry corpora and DDL | pp. 151–174

Chapter 7. Reflections on practice, and future directions | pp. 175–188

References | pp. 189–203

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