Corpora and Language Education critically examines key concepts and issues in corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on the expanding interdisciplinary nature of the field and the role that written and spoken corpora now play in the fields of professional communication, teacher education, translation studies, lexicography, literature, critical discourse analysis, and forensic linguistics. The book also presents a series of corpus-based case studies illustrating central themes and best practices in the field.
In over 30 years of data-driven learning (DDL) research, there has been a growing sophistication in the ways we collect, analyse, and put corpus data to use. This volume takes a three-fold perspective on DDL.
... across proficiency levels. The accuracy rates of lexical choice were high, ranging from 98 to 100 percent. Granger and Rayson (1998) examined the general distribution of part-ofspeech categories across the spoken and written data of ...
This book is intensely practical, written mainly by a new generation of language teachers who are acknowledged experts in central aspects of the discipline.
A compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.
Linguistic variation within university classroom talk: A corpus- based perspective. ... Multi-modal spoken corpus analysis and language description: The case of multi-word expressions. ... Exploring corpora for ESP learning.
... learning. In Teaching and Learning by Doing Corpus Analysis. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Teaching and ...
This book covers the use of corpora in language learning and translation.
This book is the first of its kind to deal explicitly and in a wide-ranging way with the use of corpora in teaching.
This book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and teaching. It is divided into three parts.
Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of educationally relevant topics, this book: • covers 18 key skills including corpus building, the role of frequency, different corpus methods, ...