How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching

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John McH. Sinclair

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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.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 12] 2004. viii, 308 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.12

Table of Contents

List of contributors | p. vii

Introduction

John McH. Sinclair | pp. 1–10

The corpus and the teacher

In the classroom | p. 13

In the classroom: Corpora in the classroom: An overview and some reflections on future developments

Silvia Bernardini | pp. 15–36

In preparation: What teachers have always wanted to know — and how corpora can help

Amy B.M. Tsui | pp. 39–61

Resources — Corpora

Corpus variety: Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teaching

Susan Conrad | pp. 67–85

Spoken - general: Spoken corpus for an ordinary learner

Anna Mauranen | pp. 89–105

Spoken - an example: The use of concordancing in the teaching of Portuguese

Luísa Alice Santos Pereira | pp. 109–122

Learner corpora: Learner corpora and their potential for language teaching

Nadja Nesselhauf | pp. 125–152

Research

Composition: The use of adverbial connectors in Hungarian university students’ argumentative essays

Gyula Tankó | pp. 157–181

Textbooks: A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics

Ute Römer | pp. 185–199

Resources — Computing

Basic processing: Software for corpus access and analysis

Michael Barlow | pp. 205–221

Programming: Simple Perl programming for corpus work

Pernilla Danielsson | pp. 225–246

Network: Learner oral corpora and network - based language teaching: Scope and foundations

Pascual Pérez-Paredes | pp. 249–268

Prospects

New evidence, new priorities, new attitudes

John McH. Sinclair | pp. 271–299

Notes on contributors | p. 301

Index | p. 305

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