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Corpus-informed research and learning in ESP : issues and applications / edited by Alex Boulton, Shirley Carter-Thomas, Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 52.
- Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 52
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
- English language.
- English language--Study and teaching--Data processing.
- English language--Discourse analysis--Data processing.
- Computational linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
- Summary:
- Corpus linguistics is commonly concerned with language description, but the tools and techniques can also be used by language learners themselves in what has come to be known as data-driven learning or DDL (Johns & King 1991). This paper reviews 20 studies representing empirical evaluations of corpus use by second or foreign language users within the context of ESP. The wide variety of tools, corpora, course objectives, experiment designs and research questions makes a thorough meta-analysis impossible. However, analysis of the individual papers shows that students can use corpora successfully for ESP and are generally favourable to the approach, whether as a learning tool (especially for vocabulary and lexico-grammar) or as a reference resource (especially for writing). Keywords: data-driven learning; corpus consultation; language learning; empirical evidence; learning outcomes.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. ESP corpora for language research
- pt. 2. ESP corpora for genre-based approaches
- pt. 3. ESP corpora for language teaching and learning.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613558282
- 9781280380372
- 1280380373
- 9789027273949
- 9027273944
- OCLC:
- 792688682
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