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Nominal compounds and their collocates in scientific discourse: a corpus-based analysis and pedagogical implications

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natural language processingeducation

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Bel
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Uni
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CCSDAss
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International audience The structure of English nominal compounds (NCs) i.e. long strings of nouns insequence represent a real comprehension problem to non-native speakers (in our caseAlgerian science undergraduate learners) as these learners are sometimes unable to find outwhat refers to what because NCs are rare in the Algerian learners’ L1 and L2. The presentarticle focuses on the study of NCs in scientific discourse in the field of biology. Biologydiscourse in journal articles is significantly characterised by the widespread use of NCs whichoften form collocates. The examples of English NCs in biology discourse given in this articleare taken from a corpus consisting of a collection of authentic texts representative of thelanguage of biology. This study, which brings together language learning/teaching and the useof corpus data, deals with NC frequency and length, the forms, and functions that theyperform in scientific discourse together with their pedagogical implications where differentactivities and tasks are suggested. La structure des noms composés (NC) en anglais, une succession de suites de noms,représente un véritable problème de compréhension pour les locuteurs non-natifs (dans notrecas, les étudiants en licence de sciences en Algérie) puisque les NC constituent un cas raredans la L1 et la L2 des apprenants algériens. Cet article s’intéresse à l’étude des NC dans lediscours scientifique en biologie. Dans les articles de revue, le discours en biologie estcaractérisé par un emploi important de NC qui forment des collocations dans la plupart descas. Les exemples de NC anglais dans le discours biologique étudiés dans cet article sontextraits d’un corpus formé d’un ensemble de textes authentiques, représentatifs du discoursbiologique. Cette étude, qui intègre apprentissage /enseignement des langues et apportpotentiel de corpus, analyse les NC du point de vue de leur fréquence et de leur longueur, desformes et fonctions qu’ils assument dans le discours scientifique ainsi que les implicationspédagogiques assorties de différentes activités et taches.

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Arabic, Algerian Spoken

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activities and taskscollocatesconcordancesbiologyESPforms and functionsnominal compoundsanglais langue de spécialitébiologieconcordances+5

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