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Title:
New trends in corpora and language learning
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Corpus and discourse
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010
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xxxiv, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781441159960

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Summary

This book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and teaching. It is divided into three parts. Part I focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. These cover the world's first corpus-based TV program for the teaching of English conversation, as well as corpus-based approaches to the teaching of EAP, cultural studies and translation. Part II focuses on new corpus-based tools for LSP learning. Part III illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data and discusses their implications for language teaching and learning. It will appeal to scholars in both language teaching and learning and corpus and computational linguistics.


Author Notes

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia is Auxiliary Professor at the Instituto Superior de Lnguas e Administraco (ISLA-Lisboa) and at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Lynne Flowerdew is a Senior Lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, SAR China.
Guy Aston is Professor of English Language and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy.


Table of Contents

Lou BurnardYukio TonoMaggie CharlesBernhard KettemannNatalie KüblerPrzemystaw KaszubskiAnne Li-E Liu and David Wible and Nai-Lung TsaoFrancesca CoccettaAlejandro Curado FuentesMartin WarrenJohn OsborneSylvie De CockHilary NesiAnna-Maria Hatzitheodorou and Marina MattheoudakisJohn McKenny and Karen Bennett
List of Figuresp. ix
List of Tablesp. xii
Prefacep. xv
Notes on Contributorsp. xix
List of Abbreviationsp. xxv
Introductionp. xxviii
Part I Corpora with language learners: use
Chapter 1 TaLC in action: recent innovations in corpus-based English language teaching in Japanp. 3
Chapter 2 Using hands-on concordancing to teach rhetorical functions: evaluation and implications for EAP writing classesp. 26
Chapter 3 Tracing the Emo side of life. Using a corpus of an alternative youth culture discourse to teach Cultural Studiesp. 44
Chapter 4 Working with corpora for translation teaching in a French-speaking settingp. 62
Chapter 5 IFAConc - a pedagogic tool for online concordancing with EFL / EAP learnersp. 81
Part II Corpora for language learners: tools
Chapter 6 A corpus-based approach to automatic feedback for learners' miscollocationsp. 107
Chapter 7 Multimodal functional-notional concordancingp. 121
Chapter 8 Academic corpus integration in MT and application to LSP teachingp. 139
Chapter 9 Using corpora in the learning and teaching of phraseological variationp. 153
Chapter 10 The SACODEYL search tool - exploiting corpora for language learning purposesJohannes Widmann and Kurt Kohn and Ramon Ziai and 167
Part III Corpora by language learners: learner language
Chapter 11 Oral learner corpora and the assessment of fluency in the Common European Frameworkp. 181
Chapter 12 Preferred patterns of use of positive and negative evaluative adjectives in native and learner speech: an ELT perspectivep. 198
Chapter 13 BAWE: an introduction to a new resourcep. 213
Chapter 14 The impact of culture on the use of stance exponents as persuasive devices: the case of GRICLE and English native speaker corporap. 229
Chapter 15 Polishing papers for publication: palimpsests or procrustean beds?p. 247
Indexp. 263