Chapter 1

Explore Chapter 1 Introduction – The rationale and the research gap This MA research project has two principal objectives. The first is the creation and analysis of a corpus of annual reports of Irish-registered companies, and examination of its most prominent lexical...

Chapter 2

Explore Chapter 2 Literature Review This Chapter reviews the academic literature on corpus linguistics studies specifically in the context of BE, provides an overview of the use of corporate annual reports in ELT pedagogy and establishes the theoretical framework...

Chapter 3

Explore Chapter 3   Methodology   This chapter describes the process of creation of the Annual Reports of Irish Companies (ARIC) corpus and also discusses tools and types of linguistic analyses that were applied. 3.1 Corpus design and data collectionThe...

Chapter 4

Explore Chapter 4   Presentation of Findings and Discussion   In this section an overview of the results and further discussion in the context of pedagogical value of the four corpus analyses are presented. The creation of the teaching materials is further...

References

Explore References Ackermann, K., Chen, Y. (2013). Developing the Academic Collocation List (ACL) – A corpus-driven and expert-judged approach. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 12. 235–247. 10.1016/j.jeap.2013.08.002.  Anthony, L. (2004). AntConc: A Learner...

Chapter 5

Explore Chapter 5     Conclusion   As mentioned in the introduction section, this project has two main deliverables. One is the creation and analysis of the corpus, and examination of the most common lexical features, namely most frequent words,...