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Tourism English and IT evaluation.

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Abstract

An oral fluency evaluation for Tourism English (TE) is proposed by contrasting linguistic production with corpus data. Electronic written and oral text collections (corpora) are designed and exploited so that an evaluative approach may be devised and carried out. The aim is to identify any significant oral performance changes arising between learners who have managed such electronic resources and learners who have not.

Introduction

In tertiary education, two main branches of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) seem to be converging. These are EAP (English for Academic Purposes) and EPP (English for Professional Purposes). As ...

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