Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. A theory for TaLC?
5. The textual priming of Lexis 21
6. Corpora by learners?
7. Multiple comparisons of IL, L1 and TL corpora: The case of L2 acquisition of verb subcategorization patterns by Japanese learners of English 45
8. New wine in old skins? A corpus investigation of L1 syntactic transfer in learner language 67
9. Demonstratives as anaphora markers in advanced leaners' English 89
10. How learner corpus analysis can contribute to language teaching: A study of support verb constructions 109
11. The problem-solution pattern in apprentice vs. professional technical writing: an application of appraisal theory 125
12. Using a corpus of children's writing to test a solution to the sample size problem affecting type-token ratios 137
13. Corpora for learners?
14. Comparing real and ideal language learner input: The use of an EFL textbook corpus in corpus linguistics and language teaching 151
15. Can the L in TALC stand for Literature? 169
16. Speech corpora in the classroom 195
17. Lost in parallel concordances 213
18. Corpora with learners?
19. Examining native speakers' and learners' investigation of the same concordance data and its implications for classroom concordancing with ELF learners 233
20. Some Lessons Students Learn: Self-discovery and Corpora 247
21. Student use of large, annotated corpora to analyze syntactic variation 259
22. A future for TaLC?
23. Facilitating the compilation and dissemination of ad-hoc web corpora 273
24. Index 301
25. Bionotes 307