In:Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
Elen Le Foll
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 116] 2024
► pp. xix–xx
List of abbreviations
Published online: 25 July 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.116.glossary
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.116.glossary
BNC
British National Corpus
COCA
Corpus of Contemporary American English
EAP
English for academic purposes
EFA
Exploratory factor analysis (see 5.3.5)
EFL
English as a foreign language
EGP
English for general purposes
ELF
English as a lingua franca
ENL
English as a native language
ESL
English as a second language
ESP
English for specific purposes
FA
Factor analysis (see 5.3.5)
FPV
Finite verb phrase (see 5.3.4)
Info Teens
Informative Texts for Teens Corpus (see 4.3.2.5)
L1
First language
L2
Second or more (foreign) language
MAD
Median absolute deviation
MFTE
Multi-feature tagger of English (see 5.3.2)
PCA
Principal component analysis (see 5.3.5)
pmw
per million words
POS
Part of speech
SD
Standard deviation
TEC
Textbook English Corpus (see 4.3.1)
Youth Fiction
Youth Fiction Corpus (see 4.3.2.4)
The full list of the linguistic features tagged by the MFTE and their abbreviations can be found in the Appendix C (see Online Supplements on elenlefoll.github.io/TextbookMDA and ).
