Using Corpora To Learn About Language And Discourse

Author : Ana Frankenberg-Garcia,Guy Aston,Lynne Flowerdew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441112026

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New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning by Ana Frankenberg-Garcia,Guy Aston,Lynne Flowerdew Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and teaching. It is divided into three parts. Part I focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. These cover the world's first corpus-based TV program for the teaching of English conversation, as well as corpus-based approaches to the teaching of EAP, cultural studies and translation. Part II focuses on new corpus-based tools for LSP learning. Part III illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data and discusses their implications for language teaching and learning. It will appeal to scholars in both language teaching and learning and corpus and computational linguistics.

Author : Linda Lombardo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 3039115227

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Using Corpora to Learn about Language and Discourse by Linda Lombardo Pdf

Considerable progress has been made in the use of corpora for research purposes to describe language in use, and more recently, through a CADS (corpus assisted discourse studies) approach, to identify the discourse features of specific text genres. While the potential benefits of working with corpora in the classroom have been recognised, there has been a lag in the promulgation of guidelines for carrying out meaningful corpus work with language learners and teachers in mind. The papers in this volume aim to make a contribution toward filling that gap by providing an in-depth account of innovative corpus work, most of which has actually been carried out with real learners in the classroom. Authors provide valuable insights into ways of structuring corpus work for specific target learners, as well as suggestions for resolving problematic issues that have arisen and avoiding errors that have been made with learners and in their own research and experimentation. The transparency and honesty with which they present their methodology and results, along with the successful techniques they have developed, constitute a step forward in defining good (and bad) practice in the use of corpora in learning.

Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350083769

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Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis by Paul Baker Pdf

How can you carry out discourse analysis using corpus linguistics? What research questions should I ask? Which methods should you use and when? What is a collocational network or a key cluster? Introducing the major techniques, methods and tools for corpus-assisted analysis of discourse, this book answers these questions and more, showing readers how to best use corpora in their analyses of discourse. Using carefully tailored case studies, each chapter is devoted to a central technique, including frequency, concordancing and keywords, going step by step through the process of applying different analytical procedures. Introducing a wide range of different corpora, from holiday brochures to political debates, the book considers the key debates and latest advances in the field. Fully revised and updated, this new edition includes: - A new chapter on how to conduct research projects in corpus-based discourse analysis - Completely rewritten chapters on collocation and advanced techniques, using a corpus of jihadist propaganda texts and covering topics such as social media and visual analysis - Coverage of major tools, including CQPweb, AntConc, Sketch Engine and #LancsBox - Discussion of newer techniques including the derivation of lockwords and the comparison of multiple data sets for diachronic analysis With exercises, discussion questions and suggested further readings in each chapter, this book is an excellent guide to using corpus linguistics techniques to carry out discourse analysis.

Author : John McHardy Sinclair
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027222831

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How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching by John McHardy Sinclair Pdf

After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the classroom. This book is intensely practical, written mainly by a new generation of language teachers who are acknowledged experts in central aspects of the discipline. It offers advice on what to do in the classroom, how to cope with teachers' queries about language, what corpora to use including learner corpora and spoken corpora and how to handle the variability of language; it reports on some current research and explains how the access software is constructed, including an opportunity for the practitioner to write small but useful programs; and it takes a look into the future of corpora in language teaching.

Author : Eric Friginal,Joseph J. Lee,Brittany Polat,Audrey Roberson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319599007

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Exploring Spoken English Learner Language Using Corpora by Eric Friginal,Joseph J. Lee,Brittany Polat,Audrey Roberson Pdf

This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom. Using contemporary theories as a guide and employing cutting-edge corpus analysis tools and methods, the authors analyse a variety of learner speech to offer many new insights into the nature and characteristics of the spoken language of college ESL learners. Focusing on types of speech that are rarely examined, this original work makes a significant contribution to the study and understanding of ESL spoken language at university level. It will appeal to students and scholars of applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and discourse analysis.

Author : Nicholas Groom,Maggie Charles,Suganthi John
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267900

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Corpora, Grammar and Discourse by Nicholas Groom,Maggie Charles,Suganthi John Pdf

Corpus linguistics has had a revolutionary impact on grammar and discourse research. Not only has it opened up entirely new theoretical perspectives and methodological possibilities for both fields, but it has also to a considerable extent erased the boundaries that have traditionally been drawn between them. This book showcases a variety of current corpus-based approaches to the study of grammar and discourse, and makes a case for seeing grammar and discourse as fundamentally inter-related phenomena. The book features contributions from leading experts in cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, critical discourse studies, genre and register analysis, phraseology, language learning and teaching, languages for specific purposes, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, systemic functional linguistics and text linguistics. An essential reference point for future research, Corpora, Grammar and Discourse has been edited in honour of Susan Hunston, whose own work has consistently pushed at the boundaries of corpus-based research on grammar and discourse for over three decades.

Author : Ana Frankenberg-Garcia,Lynne Flowerdew,Guy Aston
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441159960

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New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning by Ana Frankenberg-Garcia,Lynne Flowerdew,Guy Aston Pdf

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Author : Mari Carmen Campoy,Mari Carmen Campoy Cubillo,Begona Belles-Fortuno,Maria Lluisa Gea-Valor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847065377

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Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching by Mari Carmen Campoy,Mari Carmen Campoy Cubillo,Begona Belles-Fortuno,Maria Lluisa Gea-Valor Pdf

A compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.

Author : Karin Aijmer,Anna-Brita Stenström
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295583

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Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora by Karin Aijmer,Anna-Brita Stenström Pdf

This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.

Author : Robert Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Corpora (Linguistics)
ISBN : 1474427189

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A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners by Robert Poole Pdf

Author : Randi Reppen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521769877

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Using Corpora in the Language Classroom by Randi Reppen Pdf

Explains and illustrates how teachers can use corpora to create classroom materials and activities to address specific class needs. Using Corpora in the Language Classroom shows teachers how to use corpora and corpus tools to expand student learning. Together with its companion website, this teacher-friendly book demystifies corpus linguistics with clear explanations, instructions and examples. It provides the essential knowledge, tools, and skills teachers need to enable students to discover how language is really used. Clear and concise, this volume provides: -An overview of corpus linguistics -Clear explanations of terminology -Tasks and activities that invite readers to interact with the material -Principled instructions for creating classroom materials and activities, including how to create corpora to address specific class needs.

Author : Lynne Flowerdew
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781403998934

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Corpora and Language Education by Lynne Flowerdew Pdf

Corpora and Language Education critically examines key concepts and issues in corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on the expanding interdisciplinary nature of the field and the role that written and spoken corpora now play in the fields of professional communication, teacher education, translation studies, lexicography, literature, critical discourse analysis, and forensic linguistics. The book also presents a series of corpus-based case studies illustrating central themes and best practices in the field.

Author : María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000071917

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Corpus Analysis in Different Genres by María Luisa Carrió-Pastor Pdf

This collection sheds light on the ways in which corpus linguistics and the use of learner corpora might be applied to the study of academic discourse, revealing linguistic and rhetorical patterns and insights into variation across a range of disciplinary genres. Organized into three sections, the book highlights key tools and methodologies in corpus analysis to study such features as discourse markers, lexical bundles, linguistic complexity, lexico-grammatical conventions, and modality in case studies in studies of academic discourse, both in a second language and in English for specific purposes. The volume features examples from disciplinary genres not often covered in the existing literature, including MA theses, academic book reviews, and online student forums. Taken together with the study of learner corpora, the book demonstrates the impact of corpus linguistic tools in better understanding linguistic patterns of specific languages and language use and in turn, their role in helping to identify the needs of language learners. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, and English for Specific Purposes.

Author : Anthony McEnery,Paul Baker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137431738

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Corpora and Discourse Studies by Anthony McEnery,Paul Baker Pdf

This edited collection brings together contemporary research that uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both social practice and as ideology or representation.

Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0826477259

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Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis by Paul Baker Pdf

Examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. This book evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including: collocations, keyness, concordances, dispersion plots, and building and annotating corpora.