Overview
Derived from the successful International Seminar on Corpus Linguistics, New Trends in Language Teaching and Translation Studies: In Honour of John Sinclair (Granada, September 2008), organised by the research groups ADELEX (Assessing and Developing Lexical Competence) and ECPC (European Comparable and Parallel Corpora), seven contributions from well-known scholars in the field focus their attention on recent advances made in Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching. The first four chapters deal with more practical issues of applying corpora to language learning and teaching, examining particularly the integration of data-driven learning and different types of corpora including pedagogical, spoken multimedia and parallel. The last three chapters are concerned more with corpus-based research for language teaching arguing for more refined statistical methodology, comparing conversational features of the British National Corpus with a micro-corpus of movies and forwarding the case for research into corpus-based, meaning-oriented multimodal annotation, respectively. This volume is homage to John Sinclair's academic legacy and the groundbreaking work which continues to honour his name.
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Author: Tony Harris ,
Maria Moreno Jaen
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition: New edition
Volume: 128
Weight: 0.330kg
ISBN: 9783034305242
ISBN 10: 3034305249
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 15 December 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
(...) the present volume makes a strong contribution to the field of corpus linguistics application in language teaching. (Papaioannou Vasiliki, The Linguist List)
(...) the present volume makes a strong contribution to the field of corpus linguistics application in language teaching. (Papaioannou Vasiliki, The Linguist List)
Author Information
Tony Harris is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Granada. One of his main areas of research is non-verbal communication in language teaching. He has published numerous articles such as Listening with your eyes: the importance of speech-related gestures in the language classroom in Foreign Language Annals and Teacher gestures in Teacher Trainer. He is currently working on a multimodal analysis of nonverbal behaviour in film clips. Maria Moreno Jaen lectures in Applied Linguistics at the University of Granada. She has published a number of articles on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), corpus-based lexical teaching and testing, including the recent An update of ADELEX: Developing the lexical competence of Spanish university students through ICT in the ESHE in Computer Assisted Language Learning, co-authored with Carmen Perez Basanta. She has co-edited issues in journals such as Language Forum and Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics.
