Overview
- Brings together an impressive international line-up of contributing authors
- Outlines the state of the art of research on using corpus linguistic approaches in the classroom
- Makes recommendations for teachers intending to use corpus linguistic approaches
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The aim of this edited volume is to demystify corpus linguistics for use in English language teaching (ELT). It advocates the inclusion of corpus linguistics in the classroom as part of an approach to ELT in which students engage with naturally occurring language. The first chapter provides a basic but essential introduction to corpus linguistics, including sections on corpora and corpus methods, and this is followed by a review of the use of corpus linguistics in ELT. Chapters on the traditional ELT strands of skills, vocabulary and grammar as well as chapters on pluricentric approaches (on language and culture, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca) flow naturally from the second chapter, which reports on a survey of the attitudes of trainee teacher to the use of corpus linguistics in the ELT classroom. The final two chapters show how the work of corpus linguists can benefit classroom teacher preparation, materials development and textbook writing.
This book willbe of interest not only to academics in fields such as English Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics, but also to educators of teacher-trainees and teacher-trainees themselves, as well as teachers who are looking for new interactive approaches to ELT.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kieran Harrington is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at TU Dortmund University, Germany.
Patricia Ronan is Professor of English Linguistics at TU Dortmund University, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching
Editors: Kieran Harrington, Patricia Ronan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11220-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11219-5Published: 04 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11222-5Published: 04 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11220-1Published: 03 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Language Education, Linguistics, general, Intercultural Communication