Corpora and Language Learners

Editors

Guy Aston | University of Bologna at Forlì

Silvia Bernardini | University of Bologna at Forlì

Dominic Stewart | University of Bologna at Forlì

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Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning. This volume provides an overview of current trends, offering methodological and theoretical position statements along with results from empirical studies. The relationship between corpora and learning is examined from complementary perspectives — the study of learner language, the didactic use of corpus findings, and the interaction between corpora and their users. Reflections on current theory and technology open and close the volume.

With its focus on the learner and the learning setting, Corpora and Language Learners is addressed to corpus linguists with an interest in learner language, applied linguists wishing to expand their understanding of corpora and their pedagogic potential, and language teachers wishing to critically assess the relevance of work in this field.

This volume grew out of selected presentations at the 5th Teaching and Language Corpora conference in Bertinoro, Italy.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 17] 2004. vi, 312 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.17

Table of Contents

Introduction

Dominic Stewart, Silvia Bernardini and Guy Aston | pp. 1–18

A theory for TaLC?

The textual priming of Lexis

Michael Hoey | pp. 21–41

Corpora by learners?

Multiple comparisons of IL, L1 and TL corpora: The case of L2 acquisition of verb subcategorization patterns by Japanese learners of English

Yukio Tono | pp. 45–66

New wine in old skins? A corpus investigation of L1 syntactic transfer in learner language

Lars Borin | pp. 67–87

Demonstratives as anaphora markers in advanced leaners' English

Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska | pp. 89–107

How learner corpus analysis can contribute to language teaching: A study of support verb constructions

Nadja Nesselhauf | pp. 109–124

The problem-solution pattern in apprentice vs. professional technical writing: an application of appraisal theory

Lynne Flowerdew | pp. 125–135

Using a corpus of children's writing to test a solution to the sample size problem affecting type-token ratios

N. Chipere, D. Malvern and Brian Richards | pp. 139–147

Corpora for learners?

Comparing real and ideal language learner input: The use of an EFL textbook corpus in corpus linguistics and language teaching

Ute Römer | pp. 151–168

Can the L in TALC stand for Literature?

Bernhard Kettemann and Georg Marko | pp. 169–193

Speech corpora in the classroom

Anna Mauranen | pp. 195–211

Lost in parallel concordances

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia | pp. 213–229

Corpora with learners?

Examining native speakers' and learners' investigation of the same concordance data and its implications for classroom concordancing with ELF learners

Passapong Sripicharn | pp. 233–245

Some Lessons Students Learn: Self-discovery and Corpora

Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Pascual Cantos Gómez | pp. 247–257

Student use of large, annotated corpora to analyze syntactic variation

Mark Davies | pp. 259–269

A future for TaLC?

Facilitating the compilation and dissemination of ad-hoc web corpora

William H. Fletcher | pp. 273–300

Index | pp. 301–305

Bionotes | pp. 307–311

“For anyone interested in finding out about the present state of the art of research in the rapidly evolving field of teaching language and linguistics using corpora, this volume provides a broad overview covering many different areas of research and topics that are being addressed.”

Nelleke Oostdijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, in English Studies 88(3), 2007

“Aston et al's 2004 collection will be a valuable resource for teachers seeking working and prospective solutions, as well as up-to-date theoretical motivations, for corpus-informed teaching practice.”

Przemyslaw Kaszubski, Adam Mickiewicz University, on Linguist List 16.1893 (2005)

“This volume is a nice addition to the Benjamins series Studies in Corpus Linguistics. For anyone interested in corpora and issues related to using corpora in the language classroom, this book covers a range of topics from a variety of perspectives. The topics covered and the number of chapters that address actual classroom use of corpora reflect the increased interest in corpora as an area of relevance for language instructors.”

Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 28(1), 2006

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Subjects

Linguistics

Corpus linguistics

Language acquisition

Language teaching

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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