Corpora and Language Teaching

Name: Corpora and Language Teaching
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Erschienen am 14. Januar 2009

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Corpora and Language Teaching
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I. Corpora and second-language acquisition
The contribution of learner corpora to second language acquisition and foreign language teaching
1. Introduction
2. Core components of learner corpus research
3. Learner corpus research and SLA
4. Learner corpus research and foreign language teaching
5. Conclusion
References
Some thoughts on corpora and second-language acquisition
1. Introduction
2. The explicit vs. the implicit method
3. Language learning as hypothesis testing
4. The student as researcher
5. Corpora and language acquisition
6. The many uses of corpora
7. Corpora in language teaching: concluding remarks
References
Part II. The direct corpus approach
Who benefits from learning how to use corpora?
1. Introduction
2. Looking back: What are the stumbling-blocks, and whatare the advantages?
3. Introducing students to corpus analysis: Teacher-prepared exercises
4. Using corpora to answer student questions
5. Corpus exercises in the language lab
6. Students' evaluation of corpus exercises
7. Who benefits from learning how to use corpora?
References
Oslo Interactive English
1. Introduction
2. Aims and background
3. The structure of OIE
4. The corpus
5. The users
6. Concluding remarks
References
Corpus research and practice
Part III. The indirect corpus approach
Themes in Swedish advanced learners' writing in English
1. Introduction
2. Themes and thematic variation
3. Results
4. Features of NNS' argumentative writing
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
References
Thematic choice and expressions of stance in English argumentative texts by Norwegian learners
1. Introduction and background
2. Material and method
3. Previous research on "Scandinavian English" word order
4. Some features of thematic structure in NICLE material
5. The use of extraposition
6. Self-reference and subjective stance
7. Other markers of stance
8. Other voices
9. Concluding remarks
References
The usefulness of corpus-based descriptions of English for learners
1. Introduction
2. Phraseology and relative frequency
3. Wordform, pattern and modality
4. Semantic sequences and the learner
5. Discussion and conclusion
References
Part IV. New types of corpora
Income/interest/net
1. Introduction
2. The notion of aboutness
3. Texts from specialised corpora
4. From n-gram to skipgram to concgram
5. Methodology for using concgrams to determine aboutness
6. Findings and discussion
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
New types of corpora for new educational challenges
1. ELT material and the corpus tradition
2. A survey of textbook studies
3. A new type of pedagogically annotated corpus for textbook research
4. Meeting new pedagogical challenges
5. Conclusion
References
The grammar of conversation in advanced spoken learner English
1. Introduction: Spoken grammar in corpus linguisticsand language pedagogy
2. The grammar of conversation in advanced German learners' speech:Three case studies and their language-pedagogical implications
3. Concluding remarks
References
Index

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