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Teaching Financial English at Tertiary Level Exploiting Specialized Corpus of Finance

In modern language teaching authentic materials provide real-life examples of language being taught and contribute to the quality of teaching. The field of corpus linguistics offers an abundance of authentic language used in real communicative situations ; this can be utilized by both course-book writers and individual teachers looking for reliable sources. In teaching Financial English at tertiary level, specialized corpora of financial texts can be used for a number of purposes: finding most frequent financial vocabulary, verifying collocations, compounds, business metaphors and idioms, compiling vocabulary lists, etc. For the purpose of our paper, we have conducted a research on financial vocabulary using a corpus compiled of abstracts from three academic journals in the field of Finance: International Journal of Economics and Finance, Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance and Applied Economics and Finance. The obtained results were used as sources of activities and exercises for practising financial vocabulary in ESP classes: matching words to make common business collocations, matching words and definitions, text completion, translation of financial collocations, metaphors and idioms, word formation, multiple-choice exercises and anagram solving. The workshop will concentrate on the results of the research and demonstrate its practical outcomes in the form of ready-made hands-on materials which have been tested in class and proven to work.

English for Specific Purposes, financial vocabulary, specialized corpus, tertiary level

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