Teaching English With Corpora - A Resource Book

Teaching English with Corpora is an accessible and practical introduction to the ways in which online and offline corpora can be used in English language teaching (ELT).
Featuring 70 chapters written by an international range of researchers and practitioners, this book:
- provides readers with clear, tested examples of corpus-based/driven lesson plans;
- contains activities relevant to English for general purposes and English for specific purposes;
- caters for the needs of English language teachers working with learners at different proficiency levels;
- features flexible teaching suggestions that can be explored as part of a lesson or as a full lesson.
This book is an essential purchase for pre- and in-service English language teachers as well as those studying corpus linguistics in undergraduate/Master's courses in applied linguistics, ELT and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

Sommario

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of abbreviations

List of appendices

Acknowledgements

At-a-glance chapter taxonomy

Introduction
Corpora in and for TESOL
Vander Viana

Part A: English for General Purposes

1. Using concordance lines to teach participial adjectives

Sean Sutherland


2. Starting out with phrasal verbs

Rosie Harvey & Irene Marín Cervantes


3. Teaching collocations with 'Survey Says'

Robin Sulkosky


4. A grand problem and a jolly solution: Unmasking false friends with corpus analysis

Natalie Finlayson


5. Raising awareness of first-language interference using parallel corpora of subtitles

Elen Le Foll


6. If you speak English, take one step forward: Teaching conditionals through kinesthetic activities

Riah Werner


7. Preposition repair: Empowering learners to fix their errors

Amy Tate


8. KWIC searches for quick answers: Solving word choice problems

Pamela Everly


9. She said she told him: Patterning in reported speech

Michael H. Brown


10. Using VocabProfilers to select texts for extensive reading activities

Thi Ngoc Yen Dang


11. Talking about the weather: Exploring adjective use with Sketch Engine for Language Learning

John Williams


12. Food talks: Using corpus data to link cooking methods with types of food

Vander Viana


13. Profiling let and make with the Corpus of Contemporary American English

Ben Naismith


14. Corpus exploration of phrasal and Latinate verbs

Eric Nicaise


15. Minimal prep quizzes: Using online corpora to foster vocabulary learning

Nick Canning


16. Helping learners identify high-frequency words

Shoaziz Sharakhimov & Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov


17. Writing online reviews

Natalia Mora-López


18. Exploring similes in corpus data

Natalie Finlayson


19. Exploring register variation in the use of indefinite pronouns

Irina Pandarova


20. Using corpora to explore varieties of English

Natalie Finlayson


21. Searching for frequent words for pronunciation activities

Roger W. Gee


22. Abstract nouns in picture descriptions

Tomás Mach


23. Tell me what your collocates are and I will tell you who you are

Tülay Dixon & Daniel Dixon


24. I feel kinda blah! Investigating language use in blogs

Maristella Gatto


25. I see what you mean: Exploring figurative uses of language

Sally Zacharias & Jane Evison


26. I was able to learn a new point: Examining the difference between could and was/were able to

Martha Michieka & Theresa McGarry


27. Learning about words in use with StringNet Navigator

Anastasiia Kryzhanivska


28. Investigating adverbials in British English: Although vs. though in spoken and written language

Lu Lu


29. Using Voyant Tools to enhance learners' reflections on their writing

Nausica Marcos Miguel


30. Gender equality in the TESOL classroom: Exploring news stories from around the world

Vander Viana


31. Phrasal verbs in use: Investigating meaning and form

Vander Viana


32. Keywords in amateur online film reviews

Chad Langford & Joshua Albair


33. Formulaic language in amateur online film reviews

Chad Langford & Joshua Albair


34. Exploring semantic prosody with trainee teachers

Jenny Kemp & Luke Timms


35. A smile which melted her heart: Exploring metaphors in English corpora

Wendy Anderson


36. Small words? Discourse markers in spoken language

Loretta Fung


37. I'm so sorry: Intensification in American English across time

Anne Barron


38. Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness

Anne Barron


39. Whilst I do not object, I strongly believe... Exploring spoken argumentative and persuasive discourse

Elen Le Foll


40. Register variation in newspapers: Working with multidimensional analysis in English language teacher education

Vander Viana

Part B: English for Specific Purposes



41. Exploring terms in English for specific purposes

Nicole Brun-Mercer


42. Teaching verbs using learner-compiled corpora

Peter Dye


43. Is there a better choice? Verb-noun combinations in academic writing

Valdenia Almeida, Barbara Malveira Orfanò & Deise Dutra


44. Problem and solution markers: Exploring lexical combinations

Eman Elturki


45. Cloze exercises for mixed-ability groups: Using the Academic Word List Gapmaker

Loretta Fung


46. Signaling transitions in academic writing

Nicole Brun-Mercer


47. Boosting your message: Using adverbs for impact in business writing

Linda Slattery, Catherine Prewett-Schrempf, Andrew Pullen & Matthew Urmston


48. Using the British National Corpus to teach phrases from spoken and academic English

Pawel Szudarski


49. Using keyness to teach about academic speaking

Michael Suhan & Kyle Lucas


50. Teaching small-group academic discussions

Valeriia Bogorevich & Elnaz Kia


51. Which words should I look up? Identifying unknown high-frequency words in English for academic purposes

Jenny Kemp & Laurence Anthony


52. Reflecting and acting on academic vocabulary use

Katie Mitchell Burrows


53. Which verb should I use? Disciplinary variation in reporting verbs

Joseph J. Lee


54. Using Google Scholar to support lexical choices in English for academic purposes

Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov & Randall Sadler


55. Exploring collocations in the Corpus of Contemporary American English

Sharon Hartle


56. How can I be more specific in my writing? Exploring relative pronouns in English for academic purposes

Jenny Kemp & Laurence Anthony


57. Don't write like that! Avoiding contractions in academic writing

Megan Bruce


58. Climate change or global warming? Analyzing, interpreting and reporting findings

Robert Poole


59. Research findings for all: Popular science communication on global challenges

Luciano Franco & Vander Viana


60. Exploring the speech act of confirming/verifying information in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English

Ildiko Porter-Szucs


61. Identifying noun-verb patterns in scientific abstracts

Mónica Rodríguez-Castro & Spencer Salas


62. Using a concordancer to teach how to write about results

Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe


63. Using corpora to explore vocabulary for writing conclusions

Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe


64. Finding your academic voice: Use of nominalizations in academic writing

Megan Bruce


65. Investigating complex noun-noun modification in academic prose

Sabrina Fusari


66. Exploring adverbs for cohesion and critical voice

Andrew Drummond


67. Exploring discipline-specific and paper-specific vocabulary

Anastasiia Kryzhanivska


68. Language patterns and rhetorical moves in research papers

Eman Elturki


69. Investigating references to a celebrity in a do-it-yourself obituary corpus

Rudy Loock


70. Thanking politely and saying no gracefully to business invitations

          Lisa Leopold

About the contributors

Index

Info autore

Vander Viana is Associate Professor in Education, directs the Master's course in TESOL and is the founder/leader of the Language in Education Research Group at the University of East Anglia. His areas of research expertise include corpus linguistics, English for academic purposes, TESOL and language teacher education.

Riassunto

Teaching English with Corpora is an accessible and practical introduction to the ways in which online and offline corpora can be used in English language teaching.

Relazione

"This book does a really admirable job of bridging the gap between theory and practice in computer-aided language learning. It is unique in providing not just a wide range of practical and motivating activities, but also a clear and accessible rationale for each activity. Crucially, this means that readers are equipped with both a set of ideas they can implement immediately and a set of sound principles they can use to design their own activities. Books like this, which foster principled practice, are all too few, and I thoroughly recommend this volume for teachers and teacher educators who would like to gain practical and theoretical understanding of this field." - Prof Ivor Timmis, Leeds Beckett University.
"This volume is a treasure trove of activities ready for classroom use. Corpus activities are presented in a teacher-friendly, easy to use manner, with topics ranging from General English to English for specific purposes for a variety of levels. A must have for any teacher interested in using corpus resources in their classroom." - Prof Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University.
"English language teachers have been waiting a long time for a book like this. It is a wide-ranging and practical resource book that will give teachers so many ideas for using corpora in the classroom in a step-by-step way. This book really will bring corpora into the classroom." - Dr Anne O'Keeffe, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
"Corpora have revolutionised research in language and linguistics over the past 50 years, but also have much to offer in practical everyday aspects of language teaching. Teachers do not need to be corpus linguists to benefit from corpus tools in preparing their own materials and activities, but a general awareness of the potential of corpora and their uses should form a substantial part of any language teacher training programme. This book fills a long-standing need for simple, accessible, relevant and inspirational activities that can be used ready-made (many with online handouts) via a step-by-step outline of procedures, or inspire similar activities on related language points.
Based on the contributors' varied experiences and designed with the teacher firmly in mind, each of the 70 chapters is short (usually 3 to 5 pages) and self-contained, and can be dipped into at any point for teaching English for general or specific purposes. And dipping into it is certainly worthwhile, as the range of activities reveals the breathtaking potential of corpora to impact so many different dimensions of language teaching and learning. It soon becomes clear that corpora can help far beyond the obvious vocabulary and lexicogrammar, extending into pragmatics, discourse and pronunciation for all the skills, as well as topic-related content, from selecting level-appropriate texts and authentic examples in different registers or disciplines, to creating stimulating activities for teaching and learning, revising and self-correcting, and so on.
I was enthusiastic about this book when I saw the title and aims, more so when I read the list of contributors and then the thoughtful introduction (a chapter in its own right to set the scene and rationale before outlining the book), and finally thrilled when I actually opened the chapters! Some classic activity types alongside so many ideas I would never have thought of, some tools that were new to me and new uses of familiar ones (all of which seem to be freely available), even subverting some non-corpus tools such as Google Scholar. If I were a literary critic, I'd be using phrases like 'staggering tour de force'; suffice to say that I'll be getting several copies ordered." - Prof Alex Boulton, ATILF - CNRS & Université de Lorraine.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vander Viana, Vander (University of Stirling Viana
• Con la collaborazione di: Vander Viana (Editore), Viana Vander (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781032252971
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225297-1
• Pagine: 368
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, ELT: teaching theory & methods