How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching
Editor
After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the classroom. This book is intensely practical, written mainly by a new generation of language teachers who are acknowledged experts in central aspects of the discipline. It offers advice on what to do in the classroom, how to cope with teachers' queries about language, what corpora to use including learner corpora and spoken corpora and how to handle the variability of language; it reports on some current research and explains how the access software is constructed, including an opportunity for the practitioner to write small but useful programs; and it takes a look into the future of corpora in language teaching.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 12] 2004. viii, 308 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | p. vii
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IntroductionJohn McH. Sinclair | pp. 1–10
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The corpus and the teacher
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In the classroom | p. 13
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In the classroom: Corpora in the classroom: An overview and some reflections on future developmentsSilvia Bernardini | pp. 15–36
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In preparation: What teachers have always wanted to know — and how corpora can helpAmy B.M. Tsui | pp. 39–61
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Resources — Corpora
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Corpus variety: Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teachingSusan Conrad | pp. 67–85
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Spoken - general: Spoken corpus for an ordinary learnerAnna Mauranen | pp. 89–105
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Spoken - an example: The use of concordancing in the teaching of PortugueseLuísa Alice Santos Pereira | pp. 109–122
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Learner corpora: Learner corpora and their potential for language teachingNadja Nesselhauf | pp. 125–152
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Research
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Composition: The use of adverbial connectors in Hungarian university students’ argumentative essaysGyula Tankó | pp. 157–181
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Textbooks: A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didacticsUte Römer | pp. 185–199
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Resources — Computing
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Basic processing: Software for corpus access and analysisMichael Barlow | pp. 205–221
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Programming: Simple Perl programming for corpus workPernilla Danielsson | pp. 225–246
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Network: Learner oral corpora and network - based language teaching: Scope and foundationsPascual Pérez-Paredes | pp. 249–268
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Prospects
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New evidence, new priorities, new attitudesJohn McH. Sinclair | pp. 271–299
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Notes on contributors | p. 301
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Index | p. 305
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