Corpora and Language Teaching

The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the different perspectives of foreign language teachers and applied linguists can be reconciled. A number of concrete examples are given of how authentic corpus material can be used for different learning activities in the classroom. It is also shown how specific learner problems for example in the area of phraseology can be studied on the basis of learner corpora and textbook corpora. On the basis of learner corpora of speech and writing it is further shown that even advanced learners of English are uncertain about stylistic and text type differences.

ISBN 9027223076   Pages 240 ISBN13 9789027223074 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Co   Weight (grammes) 600 Imprint John Benjamins Publishing Co   Published in Amsterdam Format Hardback   Series ISSN 1388-037 Publication date 14 Jan 2009   Series title Studies in Corpus Linguistics Library of Congress P53   Height (mm) 245 DEWEY 418.0071   Width (mm) 164 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

Introduction		Corpora and language teaching by Karin Aijmer		1
		The contribution of learner corpora to second language acquisition and foreign language teaching : a critical evaluation by Sylviane Granger		13
		Some thoughts on corpora and second-language acquisition by Stig Johansson		33
		Who benefits from learning how to use corpora? by Solveig Granath		47
		Oslo Interactive English : corpus-driven exercises on the Web by Signe Oksefjell Ebeling		67
		Corpus research and practice : what help do teachers need and what can we offer? by Ute Romer		83
		Themes in Swedish advanced learners' writing in English by Jennifer Herriman and Mia Bostrom Aronsson		101
		Thematic choice and expressions of stance in English argumentative texts by Norwegian learners by Hilde Hasselgard		121
		The usefulness of corpus-based descriptions of English for learners : the case of relative frequency by Susan Hunston		141
		Income/interest/net : using internal criteria to determine the aboutness of a text by Winnie Cheng		157
		New types of corpora for new educational challenges : collecting, annotating and exploiting a corpus of textbook material by Fanny Meunier and Celine Gouverneur		179
		The grammar of conversation in advanced spoken learner English : learner corpus data and language-pedagogical implications by Joybrato Mukherjee		203
		Index		231

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