Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. The corpus and the teacher
6. In the classroom: Corpora in the classroom 15
7. In preparation: What teachers have always wanted to know — and how corpora can help 39
8. Resources — Corpora
9. Corpus variety: Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teaching 67
10. Spoken - general: Spoken corpus for an ordinary learner 89
11. Spoken - an example: The use of concordancing in the teaching of Portuguese 109
12. Learner corpora: Learner corpora and their potential for language teaching 125
13. Research
14. Composition: The use of adverbial connectors in Hungarian university students’ argumentative essays 157
15. Textbooks: A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics 185
16. Resources — Computing
17. Basic processing: Software for corpus access and analysis 205
18. Programming: Simple Perl programming for corpus work 225
19. Network: Learner oral corpora and network - based language teaching 249
20. Prospects
21. New evidence, new priorities, new attitudes 271
22. Notes on contributors 301
23. Index 305