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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.

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Author:   Ana Frankenberg-Garcia ,  Prof Guy Aston ,  Dr Lynne Flowerdew (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Edition:   NIPPOD ed
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781441182111

ISBN 10:   144118211
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   24 September 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Preface by Lou Burnard Part I. Corpora with language learners 1. TALC in action: recent innovations in corpus-based English language teaching in Japan Yukio Tono 2. Using a corpus to teach rhetorical functions: students' evaluation of a hands-on concordancing approach Maggie Charles 3. Tracing the Emo side of life: using a corpus of an alternative youth culture discourse to teach cultural studies Bernhard Kettemann 4. Working with different corpora in translation teaching Natalie Kübler 5. A guided collaboration tool for online concordancing with EAP learners Przemyslaw Kaszubski Part II. Corpora for language learners 6. A corpus-based approach to automatic feedback for learners' miscollocations Anne Li-E Liu, David Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao 7. Multimodal functional-notional concordancing Francesca Coccetta 8. Academic language and corpus integration in context-based MT Alejandro Curado Fuentes 9. Using Corpora in the Learning and Teaching of Phraseological Variation Martin Warren 10. The SACODEYL search tool: exploiting corpora for language learning purposes Johannes Widmann, Kurt Kohn and Ramon Ziai Part III. Corpora by language learners: learner language 11. Oral learner corpora and assessment of speaking skills John Osborne 12. Positive and negative evaluation in native and learner speech Sylvie De Cock 13. BAWE: an introduction to a new resource Hilary Nesi 14. Exploring the marking of stance in argumentative essays written by EFL learners and native speakers of English Anna-Maria Hatzitheodorou and Marina Mattheoudakis 15. Polishing papers for publication: palimpsests or procrustean beds? John McKenny and Karen Bennett Bibliography Index

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In this collection we see how corpora can bring benefits to students in such diverse areas as translation studies, academic writing and general language education. The chapters also remind us of how valuable it is to use corpus tools to investigate learner language and - centrally - of how and why one might put the tools for investigating language corpora into the hands of learners themselves. This is essential reading for language teachers and researchers with an interest in the direction of travel of corpus applications in language education. The volume helps us to understand where we have come from and points out those areas where we are likely to see the most value in future work in the investigation and use of corpus data in foreign language teaching and learning. -- Christopher Tribble, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of Education and Professional Studies King's College, London, UK

In this collection we see how corpora can bring benefits to students in such diverse areas as translation studies, academic writing and general language education. The chapters also remind us of how valuable it is to use corpus tools to investigate learner language and - centrally - of how and why one might put the tools for investigating language corpora into the hands of learners themselves. This is essential reading for language teachers and researchers with an interest in the direction of travel of corpus applications in language education. The volume helps us to understand where we have come from and points out those areas where we are likely to see the most value in future work in the investigation and use of corpus data in foreign language teaching and learning. -- Christopher Tribble, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of Education and Professional Studies King's College, London, UK Whether a reader’s interest is classroom pedagogy or software developments, this comprehensive text on new trends in the field will certainly be of value. Importantly, this volume will appeal to a wide audience as it offers plenty to interest those familiar with corpus approaches while remaining accessible to those new to the area. * The Linguist List *

In this collection we see how corpora can bring benefits to students in such diverse areas as translation studies, academic writing and general language education. The chapters also remind us of how valuable it is to use corpus tools to investigate learner language and - centrally - of how and why one might put the tools for investigating language corpora into the hands of learners themselves. This is essential reading for language teachers and researchers with an interest in the direction of travel of corpus applications in language education. The volume helps us to understand where we have come from and points out those areas where we are likely to see the most value in future work in the investigation and use of corpus data in foreign language teaching and learning. -- Christopher Tribble, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of Education and Professional Studies King's College, London, UK Whether a reader's interest is classroom pedagogy or software developments, this comprehensive text on new trends in the field will certainly be of value. Importantly, this volume will appeal to a wide audience as it offers plenty to interest those familiar with corpus approaches while remaining accessible to those new to the area. * The Linguist List *

In this collection we see how corpora can bring benefits to students in such diverse areas as translation studies, academic writing and general language education. The chapters also remind us of how valuable it is to use corpus tools to investigate learner language and - centrally - of how and why one might put the tools for investigating language corpora into the hands of learners themselves. This is essential reading for language teachers and researchers with an interest in the direction of travel of corpus applications in language education. The volume helps us to understand where we have come from and points out those areas where we are likely to see the most value in future work in the investigation and use of corpus data in foreign language teaching and learning. -- Christopher Tribble, Lecturer In Applied Linguistics, Department Of Education And Professional Studies King's College, London, UK

Author Information

Lynne Flowerdew is a Senior Lecturer at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia is Auxiliary Professor at the Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração and Universidada Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Guy Aston is Professor of English Language and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy.

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