LINGUIST List 26.2123

Tue Apr 21 2015

Books: Corpus Linguistics for ELT: Timmis

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Date: 21-Apr-2015
From: Lisa Farkas <Lisa.Farkastaylorandfrancis.com>
Subject: Corpus Linguistics for ELT: Timmis
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Title: Corpus Linguistics for ELT
Subtitle: Research and Practice
Series Title: Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides

Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/


Book URL: http://bit.ly/1E7MwXV


Author: Ivor Timmis

Hardback: ISBN: 9780415747110 Pages: 214 Price: U.S. $ 160.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415747127 Pages: 214 Price: U.S. $ 49.95


Abstract:

Corpus Linguistics for ELT provides a practical guide to undertaking ELT-related corpus research. Aimed at researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of ELT and TESOL, and English language teachers, this volume:

- covers corpus research in the main areas of language study relevant to ELT: grammar, lexis, ESP, spoken grammar and discourse;
- presents a review of relevant corpus research in these areas, and discusses the implications of this research for ELT;
- suggests potential ELT-focused corpus research projects, and equips the reader with all the required tools and techniques to carry them out;
- deals with the growing area of learner corpora and direct classroom application of corpus material.

Corpus Linguistics for ELT empowers and inspires readers to carry out their own ELT corpus research, and will allow them in turn to make a significant contribution to corpus-informed ELT pedagogy.



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English (eng)

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Brill http://www.brill.nl
Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org
Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/
Classiques Garnier http://www.classiques-garnier.com/
De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/
Edinburgh University Press http://www.euppublishing.com
Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/
Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info/
Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu/
John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/
Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom-shop.eu/
MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/
Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/
Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us
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Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/
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