The MWSWeb Project: Accessing medical discourse in video hosting websites

Video corpora are one form of specialised corpora that can be used to promote the use of video-hosting sites, such as YouTube and Dailymotion, in domain specific university language learning courses. The article reports the experiences of a group of researchers, working in a variety of roles and from different perspectives, to promote the use of videos hosted on such sites in English for Medical Purposes (EMP) courses. The article describes how the MWSWEB platform modifies access to such sites in ways compatible with corpus-based exploration of domain-specific videos thereby encouraging university students to build their own video corpora under the guidance of their teachers.

视频语料库（Video corpora）是专业语料库的一种形式，可用于推动YouTube、Dailymotion等视频托管平台在大学特定领域语言学习课程中的应用。本文报道了一组研究人员的实践经验——他们以不同角色、从多元视角开展工作，旨在推动此类平台上的视频在医学用途英语（English for Medical Purposes, EMP）课程中的应用。本文还阐述了MWSWEB平台如何通过与特定领域视频的基于语料库探索相兼容的方式修改对此类网站的访问权限，从而鼓励大学生在教师指导下构建自己的视频语料库。