How to use corpora in language teaching / edited by John McH. Sinclair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sinclair, John, 1933-2007.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 12.

Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Computer-assisted instruction.

Language and languages.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

List of contributors

Introduction

Background to this book

Design and content

Acknowledgement

Notes

References

The corpus and the teacher

In the classroom

Corpora in the classroom

1. Introduction

2. Bringing corpora to the classroom

2.1. Data-driven Learning (DDL) or ``The learner as researcher''

2.2. Language learning as (schema-based) restructuring

2.3. Learner and translation corpora for language learners and translation students

2.4. Learning LSP with corpora

3. Discovery Learning (DL) or ``The learner as traveller''

4. The past, and the future

5. Conclusion

Appendix

In preparation

What teachers have always wanted to know - and how corpora can help

Corpora and linguistic description

Corpus-based studies and ESL / EFL teaching

Corpus analysis and teachers' language awareness

TeleNex

Teachers' questions and corpus evidence

Synonymous lexical items

Grammar rules and conflicting evidence

Rationalization of collocations

Implications for language teacher education

Resources - Corpora

Corpus variety

Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teaching

The linking adverbial though

Comparing many language features simultaneously

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Note

Spoken - general

Spoken corpus for an ordinary learner

2. Authenticity

3. Communicative utility

4. Formulaic expressions

5. Taking the corpus to the classroom

6. Hands-on

7. Conclusion

Spoken - an example

The use of concordancing in the teaching of Portuguese

Linguistic resources.

Resources for corpus-based teaching

Lexis and text type

Learner corpora

Learner corpora and their potential for language teaching

2. Learner corpora

2.1. Learner corpora - the state of the art

2.2. Potential and limitations of learner corpora

2.3. Ways forward

3. Learner corpora and language teaching

3.1. Learner corpus studies

3.2. Learner corpora and pedagogic material

3.3. Learner corpora and data-driven learning

4. Conclusion

Current learner corpora and learner corpus projects

Research

Composition

The use of adverbial connectors in Hungarian university students' argumentative essays

2. A brief overview of issues concerning the teaching of connectors

2.1. The significance of connectors

2.2. Why are connectors difficult?

3. Research questions

4. Methods

4.1. The participants and the corpus

4.2. Terminology and analytical decisions

5. Results and discussion

5.1. Adverbial connectors in the Hungarian Corpus

5.2. The distribution of adverbial connectors in the Hungarian Corpus

5.3. The most common types of semantic relationships in the Hungarian Corpus

5.4. The span of the relations marked by adverbial connectors

5.5. The position of adverbial connectors in the texts produced by Hungarian writers

5.6. Register awareness in the use of adverbial connectors in the Hungarian Corpus

6. Conclusion

7. Implications for teaching

7.1. A concordance-based classroom activity on adverbial connectors

Textbooks

A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics

2. Modals in spoken British English (BNC analysis)

2.1. Frequency analysis

2.2. Different meanings analysis

2.3. Co-occurrence analysis.

3. Modals in EFL teaching (textbook analysis)

3.1. Frequency analysis

3.2. Different meanings analysis

3.3. Co-occurrence analysis

4. Comparison: The use of modals in ``real'' English and in ``school'' English

5. Suggestions for the improvement of teaching materials

Resources - Computing

Basic processing

Software for corpus access and analysis

1. Starting with the text

2. Creating a wordlist

3. Adding context

3.1. Collocates and collocations

4. Wider context

5. Lexical frameworks

6. More on context

6.1. Annotation as context

Programming

Simple Perl programming for corpus work

2. When to use Perl

3. Step 1: Finding the interpreter and changing access rights

4. The Toolbox

4.1. Tool no 1: The tokeniser

4.2. Tool no 2: The word splitter

4.3. Tool no 3: The frequency counter

4.4. Tool no 4: A plain concordancer

Network

Learner oral corpora and network-based language teaching

1. The scope of Network-Based Language Teaching (NBLT)

2. The scope of Learner Oral Corpora (LOC)

3. Strategic foundations of LOC in networked environments

4. The digital bridge

Prospects

New evidence, new priorities, new attitudes

1. Four features of language and language description

2. Are they inherent in the language or do they arise in the description?

3. New hypotheses

4. Implications for teaching and learning

Notes on contributors

Index

The series STUDIES IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160493

9781282160491

1282160494

9789027295576

9027295573