Wintec Research Archive (Waikato Institute of Technology)
Facilitating academic words learning: a data-driven approach using a collocation consultation system built from open access research papers
December 2018 • Alex Yu
It is essential and beneficial for ESP students to master collocations of a set of core academic words. Corpus analysis tools (e.g. concordancers) have been widely used in facilitating collocation learning, and promising results have been demonstrated in the literature. This paper presents a learner friendly collocation consultation system built from 50,000 open access research papers made available by CORE (https://core.ac.uk/). The research papers are grouped into four disciplines: Arts and Humanities, Physical …