This module is designed to provide students with the opportunity to expand their subject specific vocabulary in English. Using online tools, the students will investigate different aspects of the writing and speaking practices of their disciplines and research areas. Using corpora is introducing data driven learning (DDL) through which students can investigate the language of their research papers and articles, thereby raising their understanding of the academic registers and contextual and semantic fields of their discipline, which will help them to continue to learn autonomously beyond the classroom. Using Lawrence Anthony's freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis, AntConq and AntCorgen students will learn to analyse texts from their reading lists in order to study the vocabulary that they need to develop their own discipline specific word and phrase bank for use in their essays, assignments and dissertations. Students work under teacher supervision, individually, in small groups and pairs, and project work allows them to expand their vocabulary according to their own disciplines and professional choices.

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