1st Edition

Teaching and Language Corpora

By Anne Wichmann, Steven Fligelstone Copyright 1998
    362 Pages
    by Routledge

    362 Pages
    by Routledge

    Corpora are well-established as a resource for language research; they are now also increasingly being used for teaching purposes. This book is the first of its kind to deal explicitly and in a wide-ranging way with the use of corpora in teaching. It contains an extensive collection of articles by corpus linguists and practising teachers, covering not only the use of data to inform and create teaching materials but also the direct exploitation of corpora by students, both in the study of linguistics in general and in the acquisition of proficiency in individual languages, including English, Welsh, German, French and Italian. In addition, the book offers practical information on the sources of corpora and concordances, including those suitable for work on non-roman scripts such as Greek and Cyrillic.

    Preface
    Foreward
    Acknowledgements
    List of Contributors
    General Introduction

    1. Teaching and Language Corpora: a Convergence, G.Leech

    Section A Why use corpora?
    2. Corpus Evidence in Language Description, J.M. Sinclair
    3. Corpora and the Design of Teaching Materials, D. Mindt
    4. Enriching the Learning Environment: Corpora in ELT, G. Aston

    Section B Teaching Languages
    5. All the Languge That's Fit to Print: Using British and American Newspaper CD-ROMs as Corpora,
    D. Minugh
    6. Exporing Texts through the Concordancer: Guiding the Learner, L. Gavioli
    7. Contexts: the Backgroud, Development and Trialling of a Concordance-based CALL Program, T. Johns
    8. The Automatic Generation of CALL Exercises from General Corpora, E. Wilson
    9. Exploiting a Corpus of Written German for Advanced Language Learning, W. Dodd
    10. Creating and Using a Corpus of Spoken German, R. Jones
    11. The Role of Coropra in Studying and Promoting Welsh,K. Ahmad & A. Davies

    Section C Teaching Linguistics
    12. Micro- and Macro-linguistics for Natural Language Processing,P. Peters
    13. Using a Corpus to Evaluate Theories of Child Language Acquisition, B. Ketteman
    14. Using Corpora for the Diachronic Study of English, G. Knowles
    15. The Use of an Annotated Speech Corpus in the Teaching of Prosody, A. Wichmann
    16. Corpus and Concordance: Finding out about Style, H. Jackson
    17. The Role of Corpora in Critical Literary Appreciation, B. Louw
    18. Teaching Corpus Linguistics to Teachers of English,A. Renouf

    Section D Practical Perspectives
    19. First Catch your Corpus: Building an Undergraduate Corpus of French from Freely Available Textual Resources,G. Inkster
    20. Creating and Processing Corpora in Greek and Cyrillic Alphabets on the Personal Computer, P. King
    21. Developing a Computing Infrastructure for Corpus-based Teaching,G. Hughes

    Appendices
    References
    Index

    Biography

    Anne Wichmann Steven Fligelstone