Corpora and Language Teaching

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-2307-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aijmer, Karin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

vii–viii
Introduction: Corpora and language teaching
Karin Aijmer

1–10
Part 1. Corpora and second-language acquisition

11
The contribution of learner corpora to second language acquisition and foreign language teaching: A critical evaluation
Sylviane Granger

13–332
Some thoughts on corpora and second-language acquisition
Stig Johansson

33–44
Part 2. The direct corpus approach

45
Who benefits from learning how to use corpora?
Solveig Granath

47–65
Oslo Interactive English: Corpus-driven exercises on the Web
Signe Oksefjell-Ebeling

67–82
Corpus research and practice: What help do teachers need and what can we offer?
Ute Römer

83–98
Part 3. The indirect corpus approach

99
Themes in Swedish advanced learners' writing in English
Jennifer Herriman and Mia Bostrom Aronsson

101–120
Thematic choice and expression of stance in English argumentative texts by Norwegian learners
Hilde Hasselgård

121–139
The usefulness of corpus-based descriptions of English for learners: The case of relative frequency
Susan Hunston

141–154
Part 4. New types of corpora

155
Income/interest/net: Using internal criteria to determine the aboutness of a text
Winnie Cheng

157–177
New types of corpora for new educational challenges: Collecting, annotating and exploiting a corpus of textbook material
Fanny Meunier and Céline Gouverneur

179–201
The grammar of conversation in advanced spoken learner English: Learner corpus data and language-pedagogical implications
Joybrato Mukherjee

203–230
Index

231–232