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Publication details [#31210]

Brown, T. Pascal and Marilyn Lewis. 2002. An ESP project: analysis of an authentic workplace conversation. English for Specific Purposes 22 (1) : 93–98.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | foreign language teaching | pedagogy | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0889-4906 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper deals with the role of corpus studies in teachers' design of pre-employment ESP courses. An example is given of computer-driven content and vocabulary analysis of recorded authentic workplace conversations in the pay office of one New Zealand factory and of its applicability in ESP courses.