Mémoires de Fin d’Etudes
Etablissement
Université Mohamed Ben Ahmed d’Oran 2
Affiliation
Département Anglo-Saxonnes
Auteur
BELKHENCHIR, Khadoudja
Directeur de thèse
MILIANI Mohamed (Professeur)
Filière
Langue et Litterature Anglaises
Diplôme
Doctorat
Titre
Access to the discourse community of Biologists in Algeria :Improvement in English language pedagogy using a corpus-based approach
Mots clés
Discourse community; Scientific discourse; Genre; Concordancing;Collocation; Colligation; Computational analysis; Corpus-based approach;Task-based teaching/learning.
Résumé
This thesis is a pedagogically-motivated study. It deals with the teaching of English (E.S.P) at university level, and more particularly English for Science and Technology (E.S.T).The present study was conducted at the Department of Biology of the University of Oran. It aims to investigate the context in which the language course takes place, and to explore the scientific discourse used by this community using a corpus-based approach. An investigation of the discourse community under study is explored through the use of questionnaires. The data were analysed both for explicit information and implicit perspectives. Based on the evidence gathered, this research offers useful implications to English language teaching, focusing mainly on the reading skill, and proposes a task-based teaching to training programmes for effective participation of new members in the discourse community. A detailed analysis (based mainly on ’collocation’ and ’colligation’) of a corpus of biology texts which the learners were reading during their academic courses, is done using two methods: One manual and the other computational.
Date de soutenance
2006
Cote
TH2335
Pagination
XIII-339F.
Format
31 cm
Notes
ABSTRACT AND KEYWORDS.BIBLIOG.316-338F.APPENDICES.
Statut
Soutenue