John Benjamins Publishing Company
Teaching and language corpora
Abstract
Starting with an account of the author’s experience of corpus applications in language teaching from the mid 1970s through to 2014, this chapter traces the transformation of corpus analysis from its origins on mainframe computers in university departments to the present day – where personal computers are used in research, materials development and DDL. Following this retrospective narrative, the results from a series of surveys of classroom applications of corpus analysis are presented. These findings address questions such as: Who is using corpora in language teaching, and in what contexts? What tools and resources are they using? What published resources do teachers find most useful? And what benefits do teachers feel arise from using corpora and corpus tools in language education?
Abstract
Starting with an account of the author’s experience of corpus applications in language teaching from the mid 1970s through to 2014, this chapter traces the transformation of corpus analysis from its origins on mainframe computers in university departments to the present day – where personal computers are used in research, materials development and DDL. Following this retrospective narrative, the results from a series of surveys of classroom applications of corpus analysis are presented. These findings address questions such as: Who is using corpora in language teaching, and in what contexts? What tools and resources are they using? What published resources do teachers find most useful? And what benefits do teachers feel arise from using corpora and corpus tools in language education?
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editors’ acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
- Data-driven learning and language learning theories 15
- Teaching and language corpora 37
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Part I. Corpora for language learning
- Learning phraseology from speech corpora 65
- Stealing a march on collocation 85
- A corpus and grammatical browsing system for remedial EFL learners 109
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Part II. Corpora for skills development
- Same task, different corpus 131
- Textual cohesion patterns for developing reading skills 155
- Exploiting keywords in a DDL approach to the comprehension of news texts by lower-level students 177
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Part III. Corpora for translation training
- Webquests in translator training 201
- Enhancing translator trainees’ awareness of source text interference through use of comparable corpora 225
- Using a multimedia corpus of subtitles in translation training 245
- Applying data-driven learning to the web 267
- Notes on contributors 297
- Publically-available corpus tools and resources discussed in the book 301
- Subject Index 305
- Author Index 309
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editors’ acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
- Data-driven learning and language learning theories 15
- Teaching and language corpora 37
-
Part I. Corpora for language learning
- Learning phraseology from speech corpora 65
- Stealing a march on collocation 85
- A corpus and grammatical browsing system for remedial EFL learners 109
-
Part II. Corpora for skills development
- Same task, different corpus 131
- Textual cohesion patterns for developing reading skills 155
- Exploiting keywords in a DDL approach to the comprehension of news texts by lower-level students 177
-
Part III. Corpora for translation training
- Webquests in translator training 201
- Enhancing translator trainees’ awareness of source text interference through use of comparable corpora 225
- Using a multimedia corpus of subtitles in translation training 245
- Applying data-driven learning to the web 267
- Notes on contributors 297
- Publically-available corpus tools and resources discussed in the book 301
- Subject Index 305
- Author Index 309
