How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching
Edited by John McH. Sinclair
Benjamins, 2004. viii, 308 pp.
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After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the classroom. This book is intensely practical, written mainly by a new generation of language teachers who are acknowledged experts in central aspects of the discipline. It offers advice on what to do in the classroom, how to cope with teachers' queries about language, what corpora to use including learner corpora and spoken corpora and how to handle the variability of language; it reports on some current research and explains how the access software is constructed, including an opportunity for the practitioner to write small but useful programs; and it takes a look into the future of corpora in language teaching.
Table of contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction
John McH. Sinclair 1C10
The corpus and the teacher
In the classroom 13
In the classroom: Corpora in the classroom: An overview and some reflections on future developments
Silvia Bernardini 15C36
In preparation: What teachers have always wanted to know ― and how corpora can help
Amy B.M. Tsui 39C61
Resources ― Corpora
Corpus variety: Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teaching
Susan Conrad 67C85
Spoken - general: Spoken corpus for an ordinary learner
Anna Mauranen 89C105
Spoken - an example: The use of concordancing in the teaching of Portuguese
Luísa Alice Santos Pereira 109C122
Learner corpora: Learner corpora and their potential for language teaching
Nadja Nesselhauf 125C152
Research
Composition: The use of adverbial connectors in Hungarian university students’ argumentative essays
Gyula Tankó 157C181
Textbooks: A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics
Ute Römer 185C199
Resources ― Computing
Basic processing: Software for corpus access and analysis
Michael Barlow 205C221
Programming: Simple Perl programming for corpus work
Pernilla Danielsson 225C246
Network: Learner oral corpora and network - based language teaching: Scope and foundations
Pascual Pérez-Paredes 249C268
Prospects
New evidence, new priorities, new attitudes
John McH. Sinclair 271C299
Notes on contributors 301
Index 305
Edited by John McH. Sinclair
Benjamins, 2004. viii, 308 pp.
Read this book FREEly by clicking on Browse before you buy at
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2012
After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the classroom. This book is intensely practical, written mainly by a new generation of language teachers who are acknowledged experts in central aspects of the discipline. It offers advice on what to do in the classroom, how to cope with teachers' queries about language, what corpora to use including learner corpora and spoken corpora and how to handle the variability of language; it reports on some current research and explains how the access software is constructed, including an opportunity for the practitioner to write small but useful programs; and it takes a look into the future of corpora in language teaching.
Table of contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction
John McH. Sinclair 1C10
The corpus and the teacher
In the classroom 13
In the classroom: Corpora in the classroom: An overview and some reflections on future developments
Silvia Bernardini 15C36
In preparation: What teachers have always wanted to know ― and how corpora can help
Amy B.M. Tsui 39C61
Resources ― Corpora
Corpus variety: Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teaching
Susan Conrad 67C85
Spoken - general: Spoken corpus for an ordinary learner
Anna Mauranen 89C105
Spoken - an example: The use of concordancing in the teaching of Portuguese
Luísa Alice Santos Pereira 109C122
Learner corpora: Learner corpora and their potential for language teaching
Nadja Nesselhauf 125C152
Research
Composition: The use of adverbial connectors in Hungarian university students’ argumentative essays
Gyula Tankó 157C181
Textbooks: A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics
Ute Römer 185C199
Resources ― Computing
Basic processing: Software for corpus access and analysis
Michael Barlow 205C221
Programming: Simple Perl programming for corpus work
Pernilla Danielsson 225C246
Network: Learner oral corpora and network - based language teaching: Scope and foundations
Pascual Pérez-Paredes 249C268
Prospects
New evidence, new priorities, new attitudes
John McH. Sinclair 271C299
Notes on contributors 301
Index 305