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The use of corpora and IT in a comparative evaluation approach to oral business English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2004

ALEJANDRO CURADO FUENTES
ALEJANDRO CURADO FUENTES
Affiliation:
University of Extremadura, Dpto. Lenguna Inglesa, Cáceres 10071, Spain.acurado@unex.es
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Abstract

This paper presents a method for the assessment of oral fluency in Business English according to a two corpora-based lexical approach. The original query for our research is the possibility of estimating the level of oral skills among Business English (BE) learners by contrasting their word use in oral presentations with corpus data frequencies. Use of Information Technology (IT) resources and electronic BE corpora is thus measured in the evaluative approach to identify significant performance changes between learners who have used such electronic resources and learners who have not.

Type
Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , November 2003 , pp. 189 - 201
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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