Developing a Corpus of Entrepreneurship Emails (COREnE) for Business Courses in Malaysian University Using Integrated Moves Approach
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https://doi.org/10.11113/sh.v14n1.1885Keywords:
Corpus analysis, CEFR, Corpus of Entrepreneurship Emails, English for Specific Purposes, Integrated Moves Approach (IMA), Sales emailsAbstract
This paper describes the processes that went into the design and development of the Learner Entrepreneurship Corpus (LEC), a specialised corpus that contains pedagogical sales e-mails written by undergraduates at a Malaysian public university. It describes in detail the processes involved in data collection and selection, as well as raw data processing, which includes data coding and tagging. The tagging and coding utilised online softwares; CLAWS Tagger and AntConc. The study adopted Integrated Moves Approach (IMA) which combines both structural and syntactical analysis. This paper also discusses the evolution of corpora in Malaysia and their relevance to the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). LEC was created with the goal of providing corpus linguistic researchers with a place to explore the field, as well as ESP practitioners in Malaysia with resources for developing local-based ESP curriculum and teaching and learning materials. LEC has approximately 18 thousand words from 89 electronic documents retrieved from eCampus website. At present, users can make queries to access LEC from the researcher for free.
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