Teaching and Language Corpora

by Anne Wichmann

Author	: Anne Wichmann
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 362
Release	: 2014-06-11
Genre	: Foreign Language Study
ISBN	: 1317889584

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Corpora are well-established as a resource for language research; they are now also increasingly being used for teaching purposes. This book is the first of its kind to deal explicitly and in a wide-ranging way with the use of corpora in teaching. It contains an extensive collection of articles by corpus linguists and practising teachers, covering not only the use of data to inform and create teaching materials but also the direct exploitation of corpora by students, both in the study of linguistics in general and in the acquisition of proficiency in individual languages, including English, Welsh, German, French and Italian. In addition, the book offers practical information on the sources of corpora and concordances, including those suitable for work on non-roman scripts such as Greek and Cyrillic.

Corpora and Language Teaching

by Karin Aijmer

Author	: Karin Aijmer
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages	: 241
Release	: 2009
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 9027223076

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Articles in this volume discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the different perspectives of foreign language teachers and applied linguists can be reconciled.

Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning

by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska

Author	: Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages	: 321
Release	: 2015-05-15
Genre	: Foreign Language Study
ISBN	: 9027268711

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In recent years, corpora have found their way into language instruction, albeit often indirectly, through their role in syllabus and course design and in the production of teaching materials and other resources. An alternative and more innovative use is for teachers and students alike to explore corpus data directly as part of the learning process. This volume addresses this latter application of corpora by providing research insights firmly based in the classroom context and reporting on several state-of-the-art projects around the world where learners have direct access to corpus resources and tools and utilize them to improve their control of the language systems and skills or their professional expertise as translators. Its aim is to present recent advances in data-driven learning, addressing issues involving different types of corpora, for different learner profiles, in different ways for different purposes, and using a variety of different research methodologies and perspectives.

Learner Corpora and Language Teaching

by Sandra Götz

Author	: Sandra Götz
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages	: 275
Release	: 2019-05-06
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 9027262829

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While native corpora and corpus linguistic tools and methods have been used and applied for quite some time in the development of learning and teaching materials, learner corpora are only just beginning to impact the field of language teaching, testing and assessment. This volume helps to close this still existing gap and highlights the great potential of learner corpus research for language pedagogy by presenting a selection of 11 original studies on learner corpora, conducted by established experts as well as by excellent young researchers. The papers included in the volume present new corpora and methods; studies on written as well as spoken learner corpora and on using data-driven learning scenarios in the classroom. All papers include sections on practical and concrete language-pedagogical applications. This volume will be of significant interest to researchers working in corpus linguistics, learner corpus research, second language acquisition and English for Academic and Specific Purposes, as well to language teachers and materials developers.

Corpora and Language Education

by Lynne Flowerdew

Author	: Lynne Flowerdew
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 365
Release	: 2012-01-15
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 1403998930

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Corpora and Language Education critically examines key concepts and issues in corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on the expanding interdisciplinary nature of the field and the role that written and spoken corpora now play in the fields of professional communication, teacher education, translation studies, lexicography, literature, critical discourse analysis, and forensic linguistics. The book also presents a series of corpus-based case studies illustrating central themes and best practices in the field.

Using Corpora in the Language Classroom

by Randi Reppen

Author	: Randi Reppen
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 121
Release	: 2010-03-22
Genre	: Foreign Language Study
ISBN	: 0521769876

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Explains and illustrates how teachers can use corpora to create classroom materials and activities to address specific class needs. Using Corpora in the Language Classroom shows teachers how to use corpora and corpus tools to expand student learning. Together with its companion website, this teacher-friendly book demystifies corpus linguistics with clear explanations, instructions and examples. It provides the essential knowledge, tools, and skills teachers need to enable students to discover how language is really used. Clear and concise, this volume provides: -An overview of corpus linguistics -Clear explanations of terminology -Tasks and activities that invite readers to interact with the material -Principled instructions for creating classroom materials and activities, including how to create corpora to address specific class needs.

How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching

by John McHardy Sinclair

Author	: John McHardy Sinclair
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages	: 316
Release	: 2004-01-01
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 9027222835

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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.

The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning

by Reka R. Jablonkai

Author	: Reka R. Jablonkai
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 818
Release	: 2022-07-29
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1000568938

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The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning provides a wide-ranging and authoritative overview of the latest developments and innovations in how corpus approaches, corpus technologies, and corpus data can inform and transform English language teaching and learning. Featuring a broad range of international experts, the Handbook presents state-of-the-art scholarship and inspires new avenues for research focusing on six key areas: English language teaching and learning informed by language corpora; corpora in syllabus and materials design; corpora and English for specific and academic purposes; learner corpora for English language teaching; data-driven learning; and corpora and corpus tools for language teaching. Unique to this pioneering volume, the authors cover key areas at the cross-roads of corpus research and English language teaching by drawing on cutting-edge corpus applications, methods, and pedagogical approaches, hence, bridging the research–practice gap in the field. This Handbook is a collection of novel contributions offering essential reading for those researching and studying English language teaching and learning through the application of corpus approaches.

Corpora and Language Learners

by Guy Aston

Author	: Guy Aston
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages	: 326
Release	: 2004-01-01
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 9789027222886

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Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning. This volume provides an overview of current trends, offering methodological and theoretical position statements along with results from empirical studies. The relationship between corpora and learning is examined from complementary perspectives the study of learner language, the didactic use of corpus findings, and the interaction between corpora and their users. Reflections on current theory and technology open and close the volume.With its focus on the learner and the learning setting, Corpora and Language Learners is addressed to corpus linguists with an interest in learner language, applied linguists wishing to expand their understanding of corpora and their pedagogic potential, and language teachers wishing to critically assess the relevance of work in this field. This volume grew out of selected presentations at the 5th Teaching and Language Corpora conference in Bertinoro, Italy.