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    The Academic Phrasebank is a reference tool for academic writers maintained by the University of Manchester. It provides examples of phrases frequently used in academic writing, primarily for international students. The tool can be integrated into courses through a learning management system to help students develop awareness of appropriate academic style and become independent learners.

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    Tool Tip Academic Phrasebank

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    The Academic Phrasebank is a reference tool for academic writers maintained by the University of Manchester. It provides examples of phrases frequently used in academic writing, primarily for international students. The tool can be integrated into courses through a learning management system to help students develop awareness of appropriate academic style and become independent learners.

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    The Academic Phrasebank is a reference tool for academic writers maintained by the University of Manchester. It provides examples of phrases frequently used in academic writing, primarily for international students. The tool can be integrated into courses through a learning management system to help students develop awareness of appropriate academic style and become independent learners.

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    Tool Tip Academic Phrasebank

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    The Academic Phrasebank is a reference tool for academic writers maintained by the University of Manchester. It provides examples of phrases frequently used in academic writing, primarily for international students. The tool can be integrated into courses through a learning management system to help students develop awareness of appropriate academic style and become independent learners.

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    Academic Phrasebank
    Author(s): Ruben Comadina Granson
    Institution(s): University of Groningen
    Date: 15 February 2008

    About the tool


    Tool Name
    Summary

    Format
    License
    URL
    Type
    Skill(s)
    Tool Box
    location

    Academic Phrasebank University of Manchester


    The Academic Phrasebank, maintained by John Morley at the
    University of Manchester, is a general resource for academic
    writers, its main aim being to provide them with examples of some
    of the phrases frequently used in writing. It was designed primarily
    with international students whose first language is not English in
    mind, although some aspects of this tool can also be useful to
    native speaker writers. It also includes some helpful links on
    academic writing.
    From: http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
    (X) Web-based
    ( ) Download
    ( ) Other
    (X) Free
    ( ) Shareware
    ( ) License
    http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
    Last checked on: 15-02-08
    [ ] Assessment
    [ ] Practice
    [X] Reference
    Other: Awareness
    [ ] Reading [ ] Listening [ ] Speaking
    [X] Writing
    [ ] Grammar [ ] Pronunciation [X] Vocabulary
    Other:
    Master Tool Box - Practice - Vocabulary - Vocabulary

    Using the tool


    Didactic
    function(s)

    Sample
    case(s)

    The Academic Phrasebank is an essential reference tool for


    academic writing. By blending Academic Phrasebank into the
    course through Blackboard, we provide students with a context for
    their use of the tool. In this way, students engage in self-awareness
    and through the teachers feedback students have the opportunity
    to locate appropriate phrases educated native speakers also use in
    their academic writing, thus increasing their ability to write clear,
    smoothly-flowing text in an appropriate style.
    The Academic Phrasebank is one of the tools available through their
    course on Blackboard, to all students of English for International
    Economics and Business (IE&B) and International Business and

    Management (IB&M) at the Faculty of Economics, and English for


    International Law at the Law Faculty (University of Groningen).
    Together with the AWL sublists as well as the Collocations Sampler,
    this Phrasebank is an invaluable tool for their writing block. This is
    also a tool that helps them become independent learners, not only
    during the course but also once the course has ended.
    Link with
    CEFR?
    Learner
    autonomy

    It should be possible to relate the Phrasebank to the CEFR. As far


    as we know this has not been done yet.
    Learner autonomy is absolutely applicable for this tool, provided
    that teachers explain the benefits attained if the Academic
    Phrasebank is used. Once students are aware of its existence and
    its capabilities, they work with it autonomously, as this tool is fairly
    self-explanatory.

    Strong and
    weak points

    +:

    Academic Phrasebank works as an awareness process when it


    comes to recognising the register academic phrases belong to
    as well as the academic phrases themselves.
    It leads to learners autonomy
    It is easy to use and its information is reliable

    -:

    Suggestions
    for use

    Not visually attractive


    Time consuming to use

    Dos and Donts:


    Do encourage students to use this tool
    Do assign them some activities where this tool must be used
    Do not simply tell them of its existence; show them and keep
    coming back to the site.

    Teacher tasks
    and skills

    Basic knowledge of Blackboard (if the tool is embedded in the


    Blackboard course)

    Technology
    requirements

    Internet (a beamer if you want to show it in class)

    Additional information
    Documents

    More useful information can be found in the following links:


    http://lw.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/Issues_SAWLHandout.pdf
    http://www.utlib.ee/ekollekt/diss/mag/2005/b17555073/rummel.pdf
    http://www.wwj.org.nz/exex.php#00026

    INTUIT

    Ruben Comadina Granson (University of Groningen):

    contact

    [email protected]

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