Webinar | Corpus Linguistics Applied to English Education

In this session, Dr. Shelley Staples, a corpus linguist and healthcare communication researcher, discusses findings from key corpus linguistics studies in the medical context and how these findings could be applied to classroom instruction. Findings of relevance for both written and oral communication will be discussed. Participants will also be given an opportunity to brainstorm how to apply findings to their own teaching context within medical English education.

Dr. Shelley Staples is Associate Professor of English Applied Linguistics at University of Arizona. She has been an ESP researcher and practitioner for over 20 years and focuses on corpus-based pedagogy. Her Medical English publications can be found in ESP Journal and in her monograph The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions.

Read some of her research papers on this topic:

Examining the linguistic needs of internationally educated nurses: A corpus-based study of lexico-grammatical features in nurse–patient interactions