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Lexical Priming: Applications and advances
Edited by Michael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 79] 2017
► pp. 273–296

Concordancing lexical primings

The rationale and design of a user-friendly corpus tool for English language teaching and self-tutoring based on the Lexical Priming theory of language

 | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Lexical Priming (Hoey 2005) brings together a range of linguistic patterns that should be an important focus of language learning and teaching. But it also adds an additional load to learners and teachers, demanding attention to different primings of words and nested combinations of words. With many tendencies difficult to observe in dictionary entries or other concordancing software, learners and teachers will face difficulties finding and presenting information about these primings. This chapter introduces the design of a concordancer (The Prime Machine), created for a doctoral degree project and developed to be firmly based on the theory of Lexical Priming. It introduces the pedagogical rationale for the development of some key features, including the search screen interface and the display of concordance lines.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Developing learner-friendly design criteria for The Prime Machine
    • 2.1Claim 1: The design should help language learners explore differences between words and phrases
    • 2.2Claim 2: The design of the display for concordance lines should help language learners notice textual colligation, co-text and contexts
    • 2.3Claim 3: The design should help language learners notice features in the patterning of words and phrases
  • 3.Further work and concluding comments
  • Notes
  • List of Corpora
  • References
Published online: 14 August 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.79.11jea
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List of Corpora
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Hindawi. 2013. Hindawi's open access full-text corpus for text mining research. (6 November 2013).
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