Date: 11-Dec-2009 From: Jennifer Tighe <jtighecontinuumbooks.com> Subject: Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching: Campoy, Bellés-Fortuno (Eds), Gea-Valor E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching
Series Title: Corpus and Discourse Series
Published: 2009
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
http://www.continuumbooks.com
Editor: Mari Carmen Campoy
Editor: Begona Bellés-Fortuno
Author: Maria Lluisa Gea-Valor
Hardback: ISBN: 9781847065377 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781847065377 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 140.00
Abstract:
Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT presents a compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.
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. Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT goes on to put forward 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 different L1 in multilingual learner corpora. Also presented are new tools for corpus processing: a query program for parallel corpora, and the provision of 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.
Linguistic Field(s):
Computational Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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