COMPILATION OF A BRAZILIAN ACADEMIC WRITTEN ENGLISH CORPUS

Autor: da Silva, Larissa Goulart
Přispěvatelé: British Council/Hornby Trust
Jazyk: portugalština
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Revista e-scrita: Revista do Curso de Letras da UNIABEU; v. 8, n. 2 (2017): Número atemático: Estudos Linguísticos; 32-47
E-scrita
Uniabeu Centro Universitário (UNIABEU)
instacron:UNIABEU
ISSN: 2177-6288
Popis: The aim of this paper is to describe the compilation of a corpus of Brazilian academic English (BrAWE). This corpus allows other researchers to use it to investigate linguistic aspects related to English for Academic Purposes (EAP) produced by Brazilian students in comparison to other corpora such as BAWE or MICUSP, for instance. The students represented in it were Brazilian students doing part of their undergraduate degree in British universities. The corpus is divided into several subcorpora representing 13 academic genres and fours field of expertise.
Databáze: OpenAIRE