Corpora and language learners / edited by Guy Aston, Silvia Bernardini, Dominic Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aston, Guy.

Bernardini, Silvia.

Stewart, Dominic.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 17.

Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Computer-assisted instruction.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

vi, 311 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2004.

Summary:

Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning. This volume provides an overview of current trends, offering methodological and theoretical position statements along with results from empirical studies. The relationship between corpora and learning is examined from complementary perspectives - the study of learner language, the didactic use of corpus findings, and the interaction between corpora and their users. Reflections on current theory and technology open and close the volume.With its focus on the learner and the learning setting, Corpora and Language Learners is addressed to corpus linguists with an interest in learner language, applied linguists wishing to expand their understanding of corpora and their pedagogic potential, and language teachers wishing to critically assess the relevance of work in this field.This volume grew out of selected presentations at the 5th Teaching and Language Corpora conference in Bertinoro, Italy.

Contents:

Corpora and Language Learners

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Contents

Introduction: Ten years of TaLC

References

Notes

A theory for TaLC?

The textual priming of lexis

Note

Corpora by learners

Using a corpus of children's writing to test a solution to the sample size problem affecting type-token ratios

Acknowledgment

The problem-solution pattern in apprentice vs. professional technical writing

How learner corpus analysis can contribute to language teaching

Demonstratives as anaphora markers in advanced learners' English

New wine in old skins? A corpus investigation of L1 syntactic transfer in learner language

Acknowledgements

Appendix

Multiple comparisons of IL, L1 and TL corpora

Corpora for learners

Comparing real and ideal language learner input

Appendix I

Appendix II

Can the L in TaLC stand for literature?

Speech corpora in the classroom

Lost in parallel concordances

Corpora with learners

Student use of large, annotated corpora to analyze syntactic variation

Some lessons students learn: self-discovery and corpora

Appendix 1

Examining native speakers' and learners' investigation of the same concordance data and its implications for classroom concordancing with ELF learners

A future for TaLC?

Facilitating the compilation and dissemination of ad-hoc web corpora

Index

Bionotes

The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160165

9781282160163

1282160168

9789027295033

9027295034

OCLC:

614556473