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Perspectives on Teaching Workplace English in the 21st Century

Published by Taylor and Francis

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Learning workplace language in a vocational educational setting

Book chapter
The focus of this chapter is on how students in a polytechnic institution in New Zealand learn the technical language of their vocational ‘trade’ through being exposed to their instructors’ talk and through engaging in classroom interactions. This chapter draws on a 455,000-word corpus of spoken dis…