New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning

by Frankenberg-Garcia, Ana; Aston, Guy; Flowerdew, Lynne

• ISBN13: 9781441159960
• ISBN10: 1441159967
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Cutting-edge overview of current research and innovations in corpus-based and corpus-driven language teaching and learning

Author Biography

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia is Auxiliary Professor at the Instituto Superior de Lnguas e Administraco (ISLA-Lisboa) and at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Lynne Flowerdew is a Senior Lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, SAR China. Guy Aston is Professor of English Language and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xii
Preface	p. xv
Notes on Contributors	p. xix
List of Abbreviations	p. xxv
Introduction	p. xxviii
Corpora with language learners: use
TaLC in action: recent innovations in corpus-based English language teaching in Japan	p. 3
Using hands-on concordancing to teach rhetorical functions: evaluation and implications for EAP writing classes	p. 26
Tracing the Emo side of life. Using a corpus of an alternative youth culture discourse to teach Cultural Studies	p. 44
Working with corpora for translation teaching in a French-speaking setting	p. 62
IFAConc - a pedagogic tool for online concordancing with EFL / EAP learners	p. 81
Corpora for language learners: tools
A corpus-based approach to automatic feedback for learners' miscollocations	p. 107
Multimodal functional-notional concordancing	p. 121
Academic corpus integration in MT and application to LSP teaching	p. 139
Using corpora in the learning and teaching of phraseological variation	p. 153
The SACODEYL search tool - exploiting corpora for language learning purposes
Corpora by language learners: learner language
Oral learner corpora and the assessment of fluency in the Common European Framework	p. 181
Preferred patterns of use of positive and negative evaluative adjectives in native and learner speech: an ELT perspective	p. 198
BAWE: an introduction to a new resource	p. 213
The impact of culture on the use of stance exponents as persuasive devices: the case of GRICLE and English native speaker corpora	p. 229
Polishing papers for publication: palimpsests or procrustean beds?	p. 247
Index	p. 263
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