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dc.creator Vander Viana
dc.date 2006-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-08-12T11:23:29Z
dc.date.available 2015-08-12T11:23:29Z
dc.identifier 1657-0790
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/8a9e16e3fba84766a52c8aef10157ee0
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29700
dc.description Corpus Linguistics has become a major trend in Applied Linguistics since the second half of the 20th century due to computing facilities. Nowadays teachers can research and assess their students’ production by means of compiling learner corpora. This article describes how this technique was used to investigate the usage of modals in the writing of advanced EFL learners studying at private language schools in Brazil. When the research corpus is compared to the academic prose register studied by Biber et al. (1999), the divergence becomes apparent. The findings, thus, suggest that subjects write in a non-proficient way, which runs counter to previous expectations.<br>La Lingüística de Corpus se ha convertido en una de las principales tendencias en el área de Lingüística Aplicada desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX debido a la popularización de los ordenadores. Actualmente, los profesores pueden investigar y evaluar la producción escrita de sus alumnos a través de la compilación de corpora. Este artículo describe cómo se ha empleado esta técnica para investigar el uso de verbos modales en la producción escrita de alumnos de nivel avanzado de inglés como lengua extranjera de cursos libres en Brasil. Al comparar el corpus de investigación con el registro prosa académica estudiado por Biber et al. (1999), se hace evidente una discrepancia. Los resultados sugieren que los sujetos de investigación escriben de una manera no-proficiente, lo que se contradice con las expectativas iniciales.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Universidad Nacional de Colombia
dc.relation http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1657-07902006000100006
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1657-0790
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 77-86 (2006)
dc.subject Lingüística de Corpus
dc.subject corpus de aprendiz
dc.subject verbos modales
dc.subject proficiencia
dc.subject escritura
dc.subject Corpus Linguistics
dc.subject learner corpus
dc.subject modals
dc.subject proficiency
dc.subject writing
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Modals in Brazilian Advanced EFL Learners’ Compositions: A Corpus-Based Investigation<a href=
dc.type article


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