Corpus-based selection of frequent noun + noun sequences for an English for Specific Purposes course for chemistry students

Abstract

This classroom account describes the use of a small corpus of laboratory safety manuals as a source of relevant linguistic realizations for materials design in a course of English for undergraduate students of chemistry. The corpus was used to extract frequent noun + noun sequences to design pedagogical applications which can help students understand the logical relations between the two nouns, with the ultimate aim of enhancing students’ reading comprehension of disciplinary texts in English.