Corpus-based Approaches to English Language Teaching

by Campoy-Cubillo, Mari Carmen; Belles-Fortuno, Begona; Gea-Valor, Maria Lluisa

• ISBN13: 9781847065377
• ISBN10: 1847065376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-07
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.

Author Biography

Mari Carmen Campoy-Cubillo is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.
Begona Belles-Fortuno is a Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.
Ma Lluisa Gea-Valor is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics and ESP at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Using general and specialised corpora in language teaching: Past, present and future

Using corpora to teach academic writing

"I sort of feel like, um, I want to, agree with that for the most part...": Reporting Intuitions and Ideas in Spoken Academic Discourse

Hong Kong engineering corpus: empowering professionals-in-training to learn the language of their profession

A corpus-informed approach to teaching lecture comprehension skills in English for Business Studies

Creating a corpus of EIL cross-cultural interaction in the public domain

Spoken learner corpora and EFL teaching

Designing and exploiting a small online English-Spanish parallel corpus for language teaching purposes

English phrasal verbs: A usage-based approach to L2 acquisition

FL students' input in EAP courses in higher education: Corpus methodology for implementing language representativeness

Analysing EFL learner output in the MiLC project: An error it's, but which tag?

Focus on errors: Learner corpora as pedagogical tools

Incorporating learner corpora data in grammar teaching

The monolingual learners' dictionary as a productive tool: The contribution of learner corpora

Analysis of organising and rhetorical lexical items in a learner corpus of technical writing

A Generic Tool For Annotating TEI-Compliant Corpora

Translation and language learning: AlfraCOVALT as a tool for teaching pragmatics in an EFL context

The videocorpus as a multimodal tool for teaching

Analyzing web pages of corporations: An exercise in identifying the mechanics of branding and organizational memory

Bibliography

Index

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