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Learner Corpora and Language Teaching

Author : Sandra Götz

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 26,87 MB

Release : 2019-05-06

Category : 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.



Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research

Author : Simon Philip Botley

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 27,67 MB

Release : 2021-08-04

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9004485201

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The use of corpus data in languages other than English has become increasingly important in recent years, and as a result has given rise to a growing body of research and applications in multilingual corpus linguistics. This book collects together a selection of papers which have made use of multilingual corpus data in language teaching, as well as linguistic research. The corpora described in this book include data in a variety of languages, including Swedish, Chinese, German and Italian, and the contributors include well known scholars in the fields of corpus linguistics and corpus-based language teaching.



Corpora and Language Learners

Author : Guy Aston

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 14,95 MB

Release : 2004-01-01

Category : 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.



The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning

Author : Reka R. Jablonkai

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 818 pages

File Size : 21,61 MB

Release : 2022-07-29

Category : 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.



How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching

Author : John McHardy Sinclair

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 45,66 MB

Release : 2004-01-01

Category : 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.



Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning

Author : Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 40,26 MB

Release : 2015-05-15

Category : 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.



Seeing Through Multilingual Corpora

Author : Stig Johansson

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 18,95 MB

Release : 2007-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9789027223005

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Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the characteristics of each language are brought into relief. The present book focuses on the work in building and using the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus and the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Case studies are reported on lexis, grammar, and discourse. A concluding chapter sums up problems and prospects of corpus-based contrastive studies, including applications in lexicography, translator training, and foreign-language teaching. Though the main focus is on English and Norwegian, the approach should be of interest more generally for corpus-based contrastive research and for language studies in general. Seeing through corpora we can see through language.



Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching

Author : Mari Carmen Campoy

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 15,47 MB

Release : 2010-06-07

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1847065376

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A compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.



Beyond Concordance Lines

Author : Pascual Pérez-Paredes

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 267 pages

File Size : 19,73 MB

Release : 2021-12-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 902725849X

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In over 30 years of data-driven learning (DDL) research, there has been a growing sophistication in the ways we collect, analyse, and put corpus data to use. This volume takes a three-fold perspective on DDL. It first looks at DDL and its role in informing language learning theory and how it might shed light on the language development process; secondly it addresses how DDL can help us characterise learner language and inform teaching accordingly, and thirdly it showcases practical applications for the use of DDL in classrooms. The contributors to this volume examine a variety of instructional settings and languages across the world. They reflect on theoretical, methodological and classroom implications using both novel and established language learning theories, natural language processing (NLP), longitudinal research designs, and a variety of language learning targets. The present volume is an invitation from some of the leading researchers in DDL to reflect on the research avenues that will define the field in the coming years.



Corpus-based Language Studies

Author : Tony McEnery

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 19,24 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780415286237

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Covering the major approaches to the use of corpus data, this work gathers together influential readings from leading names in the discipline, including Biber, Widdowson, Sinclair, Carter and McCarthy.