ABSTRACT
This chapter reports on a major research collaboration to investigate language use in the trades, an under-researched area in terms of specific purposes and vocabulary research. The LATTE project is a collaboration between Weltec and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Most research on specialised vocabulary tends to be focused on academic and specific purposes, concentrating for example on pre-university studies and the vocabulary such students may meet in the course of their university studies. Part of knowing specialised vocabulary in the trades relates closely to assessment. The purpose of the written professional corpus was to find out more about the nature and frequency of lexical items in the texts which learners were exposed to in their studies in the trades. The professional written texts and spoken texts of Carpentry provide part of the picture of specialised vocabulary of this trade. Another part of the picture is to look at student writing in the trade.
