Open AccessAcademic Phraseology: A Key Ingredient in Successful L2 Academic Literacy
Author(s) -
Sylviane Granger
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
oslo studies in language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1890-9639
DOI - 10.5617/osla.5844
Subject(s) - phraseology , computer science , vocabulary , metadiscourse , linguistics , taxonomy (biology) , corpus linguistics , academic writing , key (lock) , literacy , english for academic purposes , first language , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , philosophy , botany , computer security , biology
One of the weaknesses of most current academic word lists is that they fail to do justice to the large stock of multiword units that are typical of academic language. The objective of this chapter is to raise awareness of the importance of phrasal academic vocabulary. After a brief critical survey of three recently compiled phrasal academic lists, the chapter highlights the potential contribution of learner corpus data to identifying the most useful units for teaching purposes. The approach is illustrated with a case study of phrasal metadiscourse based on corpora of novice and expert native writing, and subcorpora from the International Corpus of Learner English representing L2 writers from six different mother tongue backgrounds.