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 features. The...

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 (i.e. lexical...

  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 corpus Annual Reports...

  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 discussed. Due to...

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    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, keywords, most frequent...