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EXPLORING CORPORA FOR ESP LEARNING, Laura Gavioli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2007

Annelie Ädel
Annelie Ädel
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University of Michigan
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EXPLORING CORPORA FOR ESP LEARNING. Laura Gavioli. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2005. Pp. viii + 176. $119.00 cloth.

Gavioli's volume, published in Benjamins' “Studies in Corpus Linguistics” series, states that its aim is to “discuss the relevance of corpus work for learners of English as a foreign language,” focusing on English for specific purposes (ESP) settings, with an intended audience of “materials designers, teachers and applied linguists in general” (p. 1). Gavioli explicitly states that she does not provide any comparison of corpus-based instruction to other, traditional methods to evaluate their effectiveness but that her view is that they “can be largely complementary” (p. 3).

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 623 - 624
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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