ESPSIG webinar: ‘Lexical bundles in our ESP classes: extracting and teaching bundles from DIY corpora

An ESPSIG recorded webinar presented by Catherine Richards Golini (recorded September 2019)

This recorded webinar guides participantsthrough the simple steps needed to build a small-scale, specialised corpus using SketchEngine, a user friendly, online corpus programme, in order to identify and extract 4-word lexical bundles. Once extracted, the presenter sets out approaches to the categorisation of the bundles and some of the ways we can work with lexical bundles in ESP and EAP classrooms.

Dr Catherine Richards Golini has worked as a teacher of English since 1990 and is currently a teacher and a teacher trainer of English for medical purposes, a language consultant and assessment specialist for medical English. Her interests and expertise lie in the field of vocabulary, in medicine, and its under-appreciated role in successful communication and patient-practitioner encounters. She is an editorial board member for the Elsevier journal 'English for Specific Purposes' and is the founder and director of EALTHY, the European Association of Language TEachers for Healthcare.