These views are now widely held in Europe and in the United States, but many feel they lack knowledge beyond these generalities and are unsure about specific ways in which corpora relate to language learning. This volume elegantly and comprehensively illustrates the connection between corpora and language learning.
Learning with Corpora edited by Guy Aston includes the following topics:
Corpora in language pedagogy: an overview, Guy Aston
Corpora and their uses in language research, Alan Partington
Corpus-based description in teaching and learning, Alan Partington
The pedagogic use of spoken corpora, Daniela Zorzi
The learner as researcher, Laura Gavioli
Integrating corpus work into an academic reading course, Ray Brodine
Corpora, translation, and language learning, Federico Zanettin
Exploring cultural connotations through ad hoc corpora, Franco Bertaccini and Guy Aston
A learner explores general language corpora, Silvia Bernardini.
277 pages
ISBN: 0940753162
$24.95