Languages for Specific Purposes in the Digital Era

✍ Scribed by Elisabet Arnó-Maci`(auth.), Elena Bárcena, Timothy Read, Jorge Arús (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Series: Educational Linguistics 19
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Explores the direct relation of modern CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) to aspects of natural language processing for theoretical and practical applications, and worldwide demand for formal language education and training that focuses on restricted or specialized professional domains. Unique in its broad-based, state-of-the-art, coverage of current knowledge and research in the interrelated fields of computer-based learning and teaching and processing of specialized linguistic domains. The articles in this book offer insights on or analyses of the current state and future directions of many recent key concepts regarding the application of computers to natural languages, such as: authenticity, personalization, normalization, evaluation. Other articles present fundamental research on major techniques, strategies and methodologies that are currently the focus of international language research projects, both of a theoretical and an applied nature.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Information Technology and Languages for Specific Purposes in the EHEA: Options and Challenges for the Knowledge Society....Pages 3-25
Fostering Learner Autonomy in Technology-Enhanced ESP Courses....Pages 27-44
The I-AGENT Project: Blended Learning Proposal for Professional English Integrating an AI Extended Version of Moodle with Classroom Work for the Practice of Oral Skills....Pages 45-67
Student Assessment in the Online Language Learning Materials Developed and Delivered Through the InGenio System....Pages 69-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Internet Dictionaries for Teaching and Learning Business English in Spanish Universities....Pages 91-109
Moodle Glossary Tasks for Teaching Legal English....Pages 111-128
Promoting Specialised Vocabulary Learning Through Computer-Assisted Instruction....Pages 129-154
A Practical Application of Wikis for Learning Business English as a Second Language....Pages 155-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
A Genre-Based Approach to the Teaching of Legal and Business English: The GENTT Specialized Corpus in the LSP Classroom....Pages 177-196
Innovative Methods for LSP-Teaching: How We Use Corpora to Teach Business Russian....Pages 197-222
Automatic Specialized vs. Non-specialized Text Differentiation: The Usability of Grammatical Features in a Latin Multilingual Context....Pages 223-241
Exploring the Potential of Corpus Use in Translation Training: New Approaches for Incorporating Software in Danish Translation Course Design....Pages 243-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Representing Environmental Knowledge in EcoLexicon....Pages 267-301
New Approaches to Audiovisual Translation: The Usefulness of Corpus-Based Studies for the Teaching of Dubbing and Subtitling....Pages 303-322
The Pragmatic Level of OntoLingAnnot’s Ontologies and Their Use in Pragmatic Annotation for Language Teaching....Pages 323-344
Reflections on the Future of Technology-Mediated LSP Research and Education....Pages 345-348

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics; Language Education; Computational Linguistics