New trends in corpora and language learning
By: edited by Ana Frankenburg-Garcia, Lynne Flowerdew and Guy Aston.
Contributors: Frankenburg-Garcia, Ana.; Flowerdew, Lynne.; Aston, Guy.
Series: Corpus and discourse
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group; Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781441159960
Subjects: Corpora (Linguistics); Computational linguistics; Discourse analysis
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Notes on contributors; title: Preface / by Lou Burnard; title: Introduction; title: Part I. Corpora with language learners: 1. TALC in Action: recent innovations in corpus-based English language teaching in Japan / Yukio Tono; title: 2. Using Hands-on Concordancing to Teach Rhetorical Functions: evaluation and implications for EAP writing classes / Maggie Charles; title: 3. Tracing the Emo Side of Life. Using a corpus of an Alternative Youth Culture Discourse to teach Cultural Studies / Bernhard Kettemann; title: 4. IFAConc; title: a pedagogic tool for online concordancing with EFL / EAP learners / Przemysław Kaszubskiá; title: 5. Working with Corpora for Translation Teaching in a French-speaking Setting / Natalie Kübler; title: Part II. Corpora for language learners: 6. A Corpus-based Approach to Automatic Feedback for Learners' Miscollocations / Anne Li-Er Liu, David Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao; title: 7. Multimodal Functional-notional Concordancing / Francesca Coccetta; title: 8. Academic Corpus Integration in MT and Application to LSP Teaching / Alejandro Curado Fuentes; title: 9. Using Corpora in the Learning and Teaching of Phraseological Variation / Martin Warren; title: 10. The SACODEYL search tool; title: exploiting corpora for language learning purposes / Johannes Widmann, Kurt Kohn and Ramon Ziai; title: Part III. Corpora by language learners: 11. Oral Learner Corpora and the Assessment of Fluency in the Common European Framework / John Osborne; title: 12. Preferred Patterns of Use of Positive and Negative Evaluative Adjectives in Native and Learner Speech: an ELT perspective / Sylvie De Cock; title: 13. BAWE: an introduction to a new resource / Hilary Nesi; title: 14. The Impact of Culture on the Use of Stance Exponents as Persuasive Devices: the case of GRICLE and English native speaker corpora / Anna-Maria Hatzitheodorou and Marina Mattheoudakis; title: 15. Polishing Papers for Publication: palimpsests or procrustean beds? / Karen Bennett and John McKenny.