Corpora and Language Teaching (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)

✍ Scribed by Karin Aijmer

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They 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. A number of concrete examples are given of how authentic corpus material can be used for different learning activities in the classroom. It is also shown how specific learner problems for example in the area of phraseology can be studied on the basis of learner corpora and textbook corpora. On the basis of learner corpora of speech and writing it is further shown that even advanced learners of English are uncertain about stylistic and text type differences.

✦ Table of Contents

Corpora and Language Teaching......Page 2
Editorial page
......Page 3
Title page
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LCC data
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Table of contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part I. Corpora and second-language acquisition......Page 20
The contribution of learner corpora to second language acquisition and foreign language teaching......Page 22
Some thoughts on corpora and second-language acquisition......Page 42
Part II. The direct corpus approach......Page 54
Who benefits from learning how to use corpora?......Page 56
Oslo Interactive English......Page 76
Corpus research and practice......Page 92
Part III. The indirect corpus approach......Page 108
Themes in Swedish advanced learners' writing in English......Page 110
Thematic choice and expressions of stance in English argumentative texts by Norwegian learners......Page 130
The usefulness of corpus-based descriptions of English for learners......Page 150
Part IV. New types of corpora......Page 164
Income/interest/net......Page 166
New types of corpora for new educational challenges......Page 188
The grammar of conversation in advanced spoken learner English......Page 212
Index......Page 240
The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL)
......Page 242