A Corpus-driven Approach to Teaching Academic Writing—Taking Abstract Writing as an Example
One of the key skills that English majors should have is the ability to write in academic English.This study employs cor-pus-driven teaching methodology and takes abstract writing as an example.The course team created an academic English corpus and trained junior English majors from a university in Fujian province in abstract writing.While conventional instruction in abstract writing was given to the control group.The results demonstrated that the experimental group's students'academic performance had significantly im-proved,suggesting that corpus-driven teaching can both effectively improve students'academic writing and corpus retrieval analysis skills and serve as references for later English teaching reforms.
corpus-driven teachingacademic English writingEnglish teaching
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