New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning [Hardcover]

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.

Guy Aston is Professor of English Language and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy.

Lynne Flowerdew is a Senior Lecturer at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.

Introduction \ Preface by Lou Burnard \ Part I. Corpora with language learners \ 1. TALC in action: recent innovations in corpus-based English language teaching in Japan Yukio Tono \ 2. Using a corpus to teach rhetorical functions: students' evaluation of a hands-on concordancing approach Maggie Charles \ 3. Tracing the Emo side of life: using a corpus of an alternative youth culture discourse to teach cultural studies Bernhard Kettemann \ 4.Working with different corpora in translation teaching Natalie K?bler \ 5. A guided collaboration tool for online concordancing with EAP learners Przemyslaw Kaszubski \ Part II. Corpora for language learners \ 6. A corpus-based approach to automatic feedback for learners' miscollocations Anne Li-E Liu, David Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao \ 7. Multimodal functional-notional concordancing Francesca Coccetta \ 8. Academic language and corpus integration in context-based MT Alejandro Curado Fuentes \ 9. Using Corpora in the Learning and Teaching of Phraseological Variation Martin Warren \l3H