Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching [Hardcover]

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.

I. Corpus Linguistics and ELT: State of the Art1. Introduction to Corpus Linguistics and ELT (the editors) 2. Using general and specialised corpora in language teaching: Past, present and future, Ute R?mer (University of Michigan, USA) II. Corpora and English for Specific Purposes 3. Using corpora to teach academic writing, Annelie ?del (G?teborg University, Sweden) 4. I sort of feel like, um, I want to, agree with that for the most part... : Reporting Intuitions and Ideas in Spoken Academic Discourse, Bego?a Bell?s-Fortu?o (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) and Mari Carmen Campoy (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) 5. Hong Kong engineering corpus: empowering professionals-in-training to learn the language of their profession, Winnie Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University,l#S