This study includes an original corpus of engineering journals and is part of the series of E-Learning & English for Specific
Purposes (ESP) researches . Purposes (ESP) researches that includes an original corpus of engineering journals. In this paper
the results of a corpus study will be presented, and a sample of the ESP e-learning materials being developed for graduate
students in engineering will be shown. Abstracts were chosen for the corpus this time because students are likely to read
many for their research, and eventually to have to produce their own. We prepare the 40,000-word corpus that consists of 263
abstracts from mechanical and electrical engineering journals. The corpus is analyzed using Wmatrix, which gives part-of-speech
tags and semantic tags, and compares the results with those of the BNC written corpus sampler. Some special features found
in the analysis are frequencies in semantic tags, part-of-speech tags, difference in the use of verbal forms and multi-words.
As an application of the important features, we are developing web-based materials which include the original abstracts with
target items hyper-linked to various pages containing exercises, concordances, grammar explanations, a bilingual dictionary,
etc.