Predicative Adjectives In ESP – A Corpus-Based Methodology
Predicative Adjectives In ESP – A Corpus-Based Methodology

Summary/Abstract: This paper describes a three-year experience in teaching English to bachelor students at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg. The present first year intermediate ESP module in an international classroom is an attempt to teach students how to use engineering language so that their written and oral communication is more native-like. Being non-native speakers, students often lack extensive practice and form linguistic expressions in an untypical way, thinking of individual adjectives outside the context of their modification and complementation.For that purpose attention is drawn to the retrieval of predicative adjective patterns and the method described is an initial key stage in the recognition of patterns with the help of a linguistic software program. The analysis is illustrated with corpus sentences.

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