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This book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and teaching. It is divided into three parts. Part I focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. These cover the world's first corpus-based TV program for the teaching of English conversation, as well as corpus-based approaches to the teaching of EAP, cultural studies and translation. Part II focuses on new corpus-based tools for LSP learning. Part III illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data and discusses their implications for language teaching and learning. It will appeal to scholars in both languageteaching and learningand corpus and computational linguistics.
List of contents
Introduction
Preface by
Lou Burnard Part I. Corpora with Language Learners 1. TALC in action: recent innovations in corpus-based English language teaching in Japan
Yukio Tono 2. Using a corpus to teach rhetorical functions: students' evaluation of a hands-on concordancing approach
Maggie Charles 3. Tracing the Emo side of life: using a corpus of an alternative youth culture discourse to teach cultural studies
Bernhard Kettemann 4. Working with different corpora in translation teaching
Natalie Kübler 5. A guided collaboration tool for online concordancing with EAP learners
Przemyslaw Kaszubski Part II. Corpora for Language Learners 6. A corpus-based approach to automatic feedback for learners' miscollocations
Anne Li-E Liu, David Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao 7. Multimodal functional-notional concordancing
Francesca Coccetta 8. Academic language and corpus integration in context-based MT
Alejandro Curado Fuentes 9. Using Corpora in the Learning and Teaching of Phraseological Variation
Martin Warren 10. The SACODEYL search tool: exploiting corpora for language learning purposes J
ohannes Widmann, Kurt Kohn and Ramon Ziai Part III. Corpora by Language Learners: Learner Language 11. Oral learner corpora and assessment of speaking skills
John Osborne 12. Positive and negative evaluation in native and learner speech
Sylvie De Cock 13. BAWE: an introduction to a new resource
Hilary Nesi 14. Exploring the marking of stance in argumentative essays written by EFL learners and native speakers of English
Anna-Maria Hatzitheodorou and Marina Mattheoudakis 15. Polishing papers for publication: palimpsests or procrustean beds?
John McKenny and Karen Bennett Bibliography
Index
About the author
Guy Aston is Professor of English Language and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy.
Lynne Flowerdew is a Senior Lecturer at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.
