BUILDING THE ENGLISH-VIETNAMESE BILINGUAL CORPUS OF TOURISM AS AN ESP MATERIAL FOR STUDENTS FROM ENGLISH FACULTY, UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HUE UNIVERSITY
Vol. 134 No. 6B (2025), Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Vol. 134 No. 6B (2025)

BUILDING THE ENGLISH-VIETNAMESE BILINGUAL CORPUS OF TOURISM AS AN ESP MATERIAL FOR STUDENTS FROM ENGLISH FACULTY, UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HUE UNIVERSITY

Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
https://doi.org/10.26459/hueunijssh.v134i6B.7629
Published 2025-06-21
PHAN THỊ THANH THẢO
Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ

Keywords

Bilingual corpus, ESP material, ESP for tourism, students of English Faculty Khối ngữ liệu song ngữ, Tài liệu học tiếng Anh chuyên ngành, Tiếng Anh Du lịch, sinh viên Khoa tiếng Anh

Abstract

Today ESP resources on tourism are of necessity and diversity such as English textbooks on Tourism, magazines, periodicals, newspapers, books, etc., which can be used in both electronic and printed formats. However, there is still no bilingual English-Vietnamese corpus on Tourism serving the increasing demand for students due to its convenience, ease of use, and vocabulary lookup as a reference in learning ESP of tourism and translation study as well . This article presents the building of the Engish-Vietnamese bilingual corpus of tourism used by students at ESP for Tourism classes at University of Foreign Languages and International Relations, Hue University (HUFLIS). This study was conducted in two stages: 1/Building the corpus during 6 months (January-June 2023) and 2/ Practice of corpus with the participation of 350 students during the first semester of 2023-2024 school-year. Qualitative and quantitative approaches are applied in this study with research instruments including questionnaire, and face-to-face interviews. The research reveals the current realities of students’ corpus use and their attitudes towards the benefits and challenges of using this corpus at ESP for Tourism classes. 

https://doi.org/10.26459/hueunijssh.v134i6B.7629

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