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A Corpus-Based Study on the Distribution of Business Terms in Business English Writing

Authors : Shili Ge, Xiaoxiao Chen

Published in: Emerging Technologies for Education

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In order to explore the integration of business knowledge and English language in Business English teaching, all the writing samples from three Business English writing textbooks were collected to construct a corpus; a Business English terminology database was constructed; and a computer program was coded to automatically annotate and analyze business terms in the corpus. The results show that the corpus covers all ten disciplines of business terms under study but the distribution is obviously different. Therefore, Business English teaching text does reflect the integration of business knowledge and English language to some extent, but it mainly relates to the simple business knowledge and needs to expand substantially for Business English writing teaching.

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Metadata
Title
A Corpus-Based Study on the Distribution of Business Terms in Business English Writing
Authors
Shili Ge
Xiaoxiao Chen
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Emerging Technologies for Education

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-03579-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-03580-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03580-8_11

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