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Concordancing and the teaching of ab initio Italian language for specific purposes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

L Polezzi
L Polezzi
Affiliation:
University of Warwick, UK
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Abstract

For the last few years an experimental course in ab initio Italian Language for postgraduate students of Renaissance Studies has been run at the University of Warwick. This paper examines the role of concordance programs in assisting the design and implementation of the course. In the light of growing request for Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), it is argued that the concordancer provides suitable answers to the need to introduce students to subject specific language from an early stage.

Type
Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , November 1993 , pp. 14 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1993

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