By: Mari Carmen Campoy (Editor), Begona Belles-Fortuno (Editor), Maria Lluisa Gea-Valor (Editor)

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Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT presents research exploring defferent ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching. The book shows how corpora may be used directly in the classroom and how corpus research may be applied to inform syllabi and classroom materials. Different corpora are employed to illustrate how native speakers and learners use language.

Starting with an overview of research in the field of corpus linguistics and language teaching, various scenarios including academic and professional settings, as well as English as International Language, are described. There are several chapters focusing on error analysis using learner corpora and comparable native speaker corpora. Some of these chapters use translations and their original sources, while others compare the production of learners from defferent L1 in multilingual learner corpora. Also presented are new tools for corpus processing a query program for parallel corpora, and tools to implement pedagogical annotation. The last section discuss the challenges and opportunities that multilayered and multimodal corpora may pose to corpus linguistic investigation.

This book will be indispensible to those teaching in higher education and wishing to develop corpus-based approaches, as well as researchers in the field of English Language Teaching.

Preface
Introduction
Using general and specialised corpora in language teaching: Past, present and future
Using corpora to teach academic writing
"I sort of feel like, um, I want to, agree with that for the most part...": Reporting Intuitions and Ideas in Spoken Academic Discourse
Hong Kong engineering corpus: empowering professionals-in-training to learn the language of their profession
A corpus-informed approach to teaching lecture comprehension skills in English for Business Studies
Creating a corpus of EIL cross-cultural interaction in the public domain
Spoken learner corpora and EFL teaching
Designing and exploiting a small online English-Spanish parallel corpus for language teaching purposes
English phrasal verbs: A usage-based approach to L2 acquisition
FL students' input in EAP courses in higher education: Corpus methodology for implementing language representativeness
Analysing EFL learner output in the MiLC project: An error it's, but which tag?
Focus on errors: Learner corpora as pedagogical tools
Incorporating learner corpora data in grammar teaching
The monolingual learners' dictionary as a productive tool: The contribution of learner corpora
Analysis of organising and rhetorical lexical items in a learner corpus of technical writing
A Generic Tool For Annotating TEI-Compliant Corpora
Translation and language learning: AlfraCOVALT as a tool for teaching pragmatics in an EFL context
The videocorpus as a multimodal tool for teaching
Analyzing web pages of corporations: An exercise in identifying the mechanics of branding and organizational memory
Bibliography
Index
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ISBN: 9781847065377
ISBN-10: 1847065376
Series: Corpus and Discourse
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 300
Published: 7th June 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions (cm): 24.2 x 16.6  x 2.7
Weight (kg): 0.59