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Roxana Rogobete

- UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

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Expertise & keywords

Discipline-specific expert academic writing in Romanian and English: corpus-based contrastive analysis models Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie, 2020
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0821 2021 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://dacre.projects.uvt.ro/

Abstract:

Successful academics and professionals need to master linguistic and text-rhetorical skills that have the potential to make disciplinary knowledge accessible to all sectors of society. The project DACRE aims to fill the gap in applied corpus linguistics research adapted to the Romanian context, which uses corpus methods to investigate on and generate support for discipline-specific academic writing. The compiled corpora represent twelve data-sets (around 7 million words) of expert academic writing, i.e. research articles, in Romanian, English L1 and English L2, from four disciplines. The main objective in DACRE is the creation of methodological models for corpus related contrastive analyses (Romanian-English) emerging from the detailed investigation of the compiled corpora: salient discipline-specific academic writing features (e.g. lexical preferences) and the Romanian academic writing features (e.g. collocations). The interactive platform DACRE, with free corpus searches, corpus-based discipline-specific tools (e.g. academic phrasebank) and teaching recommendations, is an open-access deliverable of the project. The corpus is dynamic so the platform can be adapted for further disciplines. The project contributes the improvement of the academic writing performance of the target groups (students, faculty, researchers and professionals) and it also lays the foundation for high-quality research in applied linguistics.

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