Increasing Naturalness in the Language Learning Classroom

Towards a Corpus-Informed Principled Communicative Approach
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-54157-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics

This volume links corpus research to classroom practice and critically assesses how the integration of a corpus-informed methodology affects pedagogical choices, teaching materials and classroom activities. Focusing on the language classroom, and drawing on examples from English, French, German and Hungarian, this book demonstrates that such methodology is applicable to languages with very different properties.

Drawing on both larger, general and smaller, more specialised corpora, including both spoken and written data, this volume:

- presents the key features of natural language according to corpus linguistics, establishing principles and methods to observe and practice natural-sounding language use

- suggests the characteristics of a coherent, corpus-informed methodology and contrasts this with existing methodologies

- explores ways in which this methodology can enhance language learning and discusses the types of activities that are most effective

- explains how this methodology be integrated into teacher training

Bridging the long-persisting gap between corpus-informed language teaching research and applied classroom reform, this book is key reading for researchers in applied linguistics and language pedagogy, as well as teacher trainers and practitioners.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szita, Szilvia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION

 

Chapter 1

Setting the framework: From the traditional Communicative Approach to the Principled Communicative Approach

 

PART 1

Key findings from corpus linguistics in the service of the Principled Communicative Approach

 

Chapter 2

What is naturalness

 

Chapter 3

General features of naturalness (1): Textual-situational well-formedness

 

Chapter 4

General features of naturalness (2): Frequency of occurrence and multi-word units

 

Chapter 5

General features of naturalness (3): Patterns

 

Chapter 6

General features of naturalness (4): Linguistic creativity

 

Chapter 7

Specific features of naturalness (1): Key elements of written communication

 

Chapter 8

Specific features of naturalness (2): Key elements of spoken communication

 

PART 2

Enhancing the toolkit of the Principled Communicative Approach: Corpus-informed teaching materials, pedagogical corpora, activities and model texts

 

Chapter 9

Corpus-informed textbooks

 

Chapter 10

Pedagogical corpora (1): Written corpora

 

Chapter 11

Pedagogical corpora (2): Spoken corpora

 

Chapter 12

Observing and practising natural language use in pedagogical corpora

 

Chapter 13

Combining corpus tools and representative model texts

 

Chapter 14

Putting it all together: Towards a corpus-informed Principled Communicative Approach

 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Szilvia Szita is Head of Department of Hungarian Studies at Strasbourg University, France, and the President of KorSzak / CorPed, an international research group on corpus linguistics and pedagogical practices at the University of Pécs, Hungary.