Overview

Includes eleven contributions that tackle corpora from a range of perspectives and sheds light on the numerous linguistic and pedagogical uses to which corpora can be put. This title presents research in the authors' respective domain of expertise and suggest directions for future research.

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Author:   Fanny Meunier (Université catholique de Louvain) ,  Sylvie De Cock (Université catholique de Louvain) ,  Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de Louvain) ,  Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   45
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9789027203502

ISBN 10:   9027203504
Pages:   295
Publication Date:   18 August 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. Preface (by Altenberg, Bengt); 4. Putting corpora to good uses: A guided tour (by De Cock, Sylvie); 5. Frequency, corpora and language learning (by Leech, Geoffrey N.); 6. Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage analysis (by Hasselgard, Hilde); 7. The use of small corpora for tracing the development of academic literacies (by Neff, JoAnne); 8. Revisiting apprentice texts: Using lexical bundles to investigate expert and apprentice performances in academic writing (by Tribble, Christopher); 9. Automatic error tagging of spelling mistakes in learner corpora (by Rayson, Paul); 10. Data mining with learner corpora: Choosing classifiers for L1 detection (by Jarvis, Scott); 11. Learners and users - Who do we want corpus data from? (by Mauranen, Anna); 12. Learner knowledge of phrasal verbs: A corpus-informed study (by Schmitt, Norbert); 13. Corpora and the new Englishes: Using the 'Corpus of Cyber-Jamaican' to explore research perspectives for the future (by Mair, Christian); 14. Towards a new generation of corpus-derived lexical resources for language learning (by Wible, David); 15. Automating the creation of dictionaries: Where will it all end? (by Rundell, Michael); 16. addendumSelect list of publications by Sylviane Granger; 17. Subject index; 18. Name index

Reviews

`A Taste for Corpora' offers a diverse and rich collections of essays, all of a high quality, covering a wide spectrum of topics related to the applications of corpora in language learning [...] a fitting as well as wonderful collection of essays to honour the achievements of Sylviane Granger. -- Marlies Gabriele Prinzl, University College London, on Linguist List 23.2764, 2012

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