Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching
Published on 15. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-3-0343-0524-2 (ISBN)
Description
Derived from the successful International Seminar on Corpus Linguistics, New Trends in Language Teaching and Translation Studies: In Honour of John Sinclair (Granada, September 2008), organised by the research groups ADELEX (Assessing and Developing Lexical Competence) and ECPC (European Comparable and Parallel Corpora), seven contributions from well-known scholars in the field focus their attention on recent advances made in Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching. The first four chapters deal with more practical issues of applying corpora to language learning and teaching, examining particularly the integration of data-driven learning and different types of corpora including pedagogical, spoken multimedia and parallel. The last three chapters are concerned more with corpus-based research for language teaching arguing for more refined statistical methodology, comparing conversational features of the British National Corpus with a micro-corpus of movies and forwarding the case for research into corpus-based, meaning-oriented multimodal annotation, respectively. This volume is homage to John Sinclair's academic legacy and the groundbreaking work which continues to honour his name.
Reviews / Votes
<<(...) the present volume makes a strong contribution to the field of corpus linguistics application in language teaching.>> (Papaioannou Vasiliki, The Linguist List)More details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lausanne
Switzerland
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
num. tables and graphs
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-0524-2 (9783034305242)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0166-9
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Tony Harris | Maria Moreno Jaen
Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching
E-Book
03/2011
200th Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
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Persons
Tony Harris is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Granada. One of his main areas of research is non-verbal communication in language teaching. He has published numerous articles such as «Listening with your eyes: the importance of speech-related gestures in the language classroom» in Foreign Language Annals and «Teacher gestures» in Teacher Trainer. He is currently working on a multimodal analysis of nonverbal behaviour in film clips.
María Moreno Jaén lectures in Applied Linguistics at the University of Granada. She has published a number of articles on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), corpus-based lexical teaching and testing, including the recent «An update of ADELEX: Developing the lexical competence of Spanish university students through ICT in the ESHE» in Computer Assisted Language Learning, co-authored with Carmen Pérez Basanta. She has co-edited issues in journals such as Language Forum and Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics.
Content
Contents: Tony Harris/Maria Moreno Jaen: Introduction - Alex Boulton: Data-Driven Learning: On Paper, in Practice - Pascual Perez-Paredes: Corpus Linguistics and Language Education in Perspective: Appropriation and the Possibilities Acenario - Sabine Braun: Getting past 'Groundhog Day': Spoken Multimedia Corpora for Student-centred Corpus Exploration - Angela Chambers: Contrastive Language Data: From Translation Studies to Language Learning and Teaching - Stefan Th. Gries: Methodological skills in Corpus Linguistics: A Polemic and Some Pointers towards Quantitative Methods - Maria Elena Rodriguez Martin: Comparing Parts of Speech and Semantic Domains in the BNC and a Micro-corpus of Movies: Is Film Language the 'Real Thing'? - Anthony Baldry/Kay L. O'Halloran: Research into the Annotation of a Multimodal Corpus of University Websites: An Illustration of Multimodal Corpus Linguistics.