What is a corpus?

• It's a move to establish a territory in a subject.

• A collection of texts to find out how people use

  language

• Human interaction to build knowledge.

What is a popular corpus database?

• Systemic functional linguistics

• Move 1, 2, and 3

• Corpus of Contemporary

  American English (COCA) (

What is one approach of the Genre-based approach?

• Corpora-based approach

• Multimodal approach

• Move analysis

What does the Genre-based approach mainly focus on?

• texts

• gestures

• social interaction

What is one approach to teach EAP?

• Social-context approach

• Behaviorism

• Zone of Proximal Development

What is the social-context approach about?

• Students construct knowlegde through repetition.

• Knowledge is built through human interaction.

• Only the information given by the teacher is learned.

What is a central component in the Social-context Approach?

• Socialization

• Access to corpora

• Scaffolding

What is an example of social-context approach?

• Each student reads an article and writes a summary.

• In groups, students exchange their previous knowledge on a topic and write down key ideas.

• The teacher lectures about mammals.

What does the Multimodal Approach involve?

• Just the language

• Gestures, body language, writing

• Gestures, facial expressions, body language

What is the main implication of a multimodal approach in English for academic purposes (EAP)?

• The focus on traditional academic practices using written texts only.

• The need for students and teachers to develop multimodal competencies across a range of communicative platforms

• The focus on disciplinary-specific text types and presentational modes only