Textual Patterns
Key words and corpus analysis in language education
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Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematic study of vocabulary and genre, can form the basis for a corpus informed approach to language teaching. The first part of the book gives the reader a strong grounding in the way in which language teachers can use corpus analysis tools (wordlists, concordances, key words) to describe language patterns in general and text patterns in particular. The second section presents a series of case studies which show how a key word / corpus informed approach to language education can work in practice. The case studies include: General language education (i.e. students in national education systems and those following international examination programmes), foreign languages for academic purposes, literature in language education, business and professional communication, and cultural studies in language education.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 22] 2006. x, 203 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vi–x
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1. Texts in anguage study and language education | pp. 3–10
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2. Word-lists: Approaching texts | pp. 11–32
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3. Concordances: The immediate context | pp. 33–53
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4. Key words of individual texts: Aboutness and style | pp. 55–72
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5. Key words and genres | pp. 73–88
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6. General English language teaching: Grammar and lexis in spoken and written texts | pp. 91–108
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7. Business and professional communication: Managing relationships in professional writing | pp. 109–129
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8. English for academic purposes: Building an account of expert and apprentice performances in literary criticism | pp. 131–159
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9. What counts in current journalism: Keywords in newspaper reporting | pp. 161–177
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10. Counting things in texts you can’t count on: A study of Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing, 1 | pp. 179–193
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Index | pp. 199–203
“The book provides a wealth of ideas for using the study of words and word-based patterns to help us to analyse and teach texts.”
Marie E. Helt, California State University, Sacramento, in Corpora 2(1): 121-124, 2007
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Aline Remael, Hogeschool Antwerpen
“This is an interesting book which gives the reader the necessary theoretical and methodological background on corpus and Key Words (KW) analysis, as well as illustrating the potential of these research methods in pedagogical settings in a practical way through a number of case studies. It gives a nuanced account, pointing out advantages as well as complexities, and limitations of the types of analysis it deals with. It also makes a strong case for combining quantitative corpus analysis (for example making KW lists) with qualitative analysis (e.g. analyzing concordances for certain KWs) in a balanced way. As a language teacher I found the book inspiring, and it will be interesting to see further applications of this type of research in the area of language teaching in the future.”
Peter Willemse, University of Lille 3, in International Journal of Applied Linguistics 2009
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John Sinclair, The Tuscan Word Centre
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