
Corpora and Language Teaching
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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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