Teaching and Language Corporation

ISBN-13: 9780582276093 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 362 str.

Anne Wichmann;Wichmann; Steven Fligelstone

Opis

This text explores the application of corpora to language teaching, aiming to show teachers and students how to create materials using corpora and how to develop their own corpora.

Spis treści

Preface
Foreward
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
General Introduction

1. Teaching and Language Corpora: a Convergence, G.Leech

Section A Why use corpora?
2. Corpus Evidence in Language Description, J.M. Sinclair
3. Corpora and the Design of Teaching Materials, D. Mindt
4. Enriching the Learning Environment: Corpora in ELT, G. Aston

Section B Teaching Languages
5. All the Languge That's Fit to Print: Using British and American Newspaper CD-ROMs as Corpora,
D. Minugh
6. Exporing Texts through the Concordancer: Guiding the Learner, L. Gavioli
7. Contexts: the Backgroud, Development and Trialling of a Concordance-based CALL Program, T. Johns
8. The Automatic Generation of CALL Exercises from General Corpora, E. Wilson
9. Exploiting a Corpus of Written German for Advanced Language Learning, W. Dodd
10. Creating and Using a Corpus of Spoken German, R. Jones
11. The Role of Coropra in Studying and Promoting Welsh,K. Ahmad & A. Davies

Section C Teaching Linguistics
12. Micro- and Macro-linguistics for Natural Language Processing,P. Peters
13. Using a Corpus to Evaluate Theories of Child Language Acquisition, B. Ketteman
14. Using Corpora for the Diachronic Study of English, G. Knowles
15. The Use of an Annotated Speech Corpus in the Teaching of Prosody, A. Wichmann
16. Corpus and Concordance: Finding out about Style, H. Jackson
17. The Role of Corpora in Critical Literary Appreciation, B. Louw
18. Teaching Corpus Linguistics to Teachers of English,A. Renouf

Section D Practical Perspectives
19. First Catch your Corpus: Building an Undergraduate Corpus of French from Freely Available Textual Resources,G. Inkster
20. Creating and Processing Corpora in Greek and Cyrillic Alphabets on the Personal Computer, P. King
21. Developing a Computing Infrastructure for Corpus-based Teaching,G. Hughes

Appendices
References
Index

O autorze

Anne Wichmann Steven Fligelstone