Corpora in the foreign language classroom : selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 6), University of Granada, Spain, 4-7 July, 2004 / edited by Encarnación Hidalgo, Luis Quereda, Juan Santana.

The papers published in this volume were originally presented at the Sixth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora (4-7 July 2004 Granada, Spain) and reflect the latest developments that have taken place in the field of the teaching applications of text corpora, with a special emph...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Corporate Author: International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora
Other Authors: Hidalgo Tenorio, Encarnación, 1968- Quereda Rodríguez-Navarro, Luis. Santana, Juan.
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Series:Language and computers ; no. 61.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Encarnación Hidalgo, Luis Quereda and Juan Santana
  • Setting the scene ; Popularising corpus consultation by language learners and teachers / Angela Chambers
  • Using corpora : from learning to research / Stig Johansson
  • Theoretical issues : corpus design and exploitation in the foreign language classroom ; Designing and exploiting small multimedia corpora for autonomous learning and teaching / Sabine Braun
  • Towards building a usable corpus collection for the ELT classroom / Kiyomi Chujo, Masao Utiyama and Chikako Nishigaki
  • A corpus-driven lexico-grammatical analysis of English tourism industry texts and the study of its pedagogic implications in English for Specific Purposes / Peter Y.W. Lam
  • Errors or partial acquisition : a case study of a young English learner's interlanguage / Xiaotian Guo
  • To weep perilously or W. EAP critically : the case for a corpus-based critical EAP / Josta van Rij-Heyligers
  • The treatment of phraseology in ELT textbooks / Fanny Meunier and Céline Gouverneur
  • The application of data-driven learning to a small-scale corpus : using film transcripts for teaching conversational skills / Carmen Pérez Basanta and María Elena Rodríguez Martín
  • Practical applications of corpora in the foreign language classroom ; Investigating restricted semantic sets in a large general corpus : learning activities for students of English as a foreign language / Stephen Coffey
  • How (dis)similar? Telling the difference between near-synonyms in a foreign language / Sara Gesuato
  • George Bush and the Last Crusade or the fight for truth, justice and the American way / David Minugh
  • Inductive learning and self-correction with the use of learner and reference corpora / Szilvia Papp
  • Pattern-learning and pattern-description : an integrated approach to proficiency and research for students of English / Nele Olivier, Lieselotte Brems, Kristin Davidse, Dirk Speelman and Hubert Cuyckens
  • Contrastive patterns of mental transitivity in English and Spanish : a student-centred corpus-based study / Julia Lavid
  • Past progressive or simple past? The acquisition of progressive aspect by Polish advanced learners of English / Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska
  • Getting to 'know' connectors? Evaluating data-driven learning in a writing skills course / Andy Cresswell
  • Managing relationships in professional writing / Christopher Tribble
  • A corpus-based assessment of reading comprehension in English for Tourism studies / Alejandro Curado Fuentes
  • Afterword ; Truth, literary worlds and devices as collocation / Bill Louw.