Table of contents
Introduction: Data-driven learning in language pedagogy
Data-driven learning and language learning theories: Whither the twain shall meet
Teaching and language corpora: Perspectives from a personal journey
Part I. Corpora for language learning
Learning phraseology from speech corpora
Stealing a march on collocation: Deriving extended collocations from full text for student analysis and synthesis
A corpus and grammatical browsing system for remedial EFL learners
Part II. Corpora for skills development
Same task, different corpus: The role of personal corpora in EAP classes
Textual cohesion patterns for developing reading skills: A corpus-based multilingual learning environment
Exploiting keywords in a DDL approach to the comprehension of news texts by lower-level students
Part III. Corpora for translation training
Webquests in translator training: Introducing corpus-based tasks
Enhancing translator trainees’ awareness of source text interference through use of comparable corpora
Using a multimedia corpus of subtitles in translation training: Design and applications of the Veiga corpus
Applying data-driven learning to the web
Notes on contributors
Publically-available corpus tools and resources discussed in the book
Subject Index
Author Index
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