Publisher's Synopsis
- Shows how corpora can be used for language learning and teaching
- Examines the state-of-the-art in DDL research, in light of the available empirical evidence on both etic and emic dimensions, while placing particular emphasis on the methodological gaps
- Illustrates the main methodological challenges in researching DDL, from corpus resource selection to empirical evaluation of its pedagogical effectiveness, and describes how they can be overcome
- Demonstrates, by means of an in-depth case study, how the guidelines provided above can be applied when researching DDL effects in a specific second language learning and teaching context while outlining some desirable avenues for future research and pedagogical practice
- Of interest to those conducting research in corpus linguistics and teaching in the Italian domain, but also to those working with other languages
