This book covers the use of corpora in language learning and translation. Chapters include: Learning with corpora: an overview; Corpora and their uses in language research; Corpus-based description in teaching and learning; The pedagogic use of spoken corpora; The learner as researcher; Integrating corpus work into an academic reading course; Swimming in words; Going to the Clochemerle; 'Spoilt for choice': a learner explores general language corpora.

This textbook is designed to provide a detailed understanding of the principles and practices underlying the use of large language corpora in exploratory learning and English language teaching and research. It focuses on the largest and most representative corpus of spoken and written data yet compiled--the British National Corpus--and on the search tool SARA (SGML Aware Retrieval Application). The method adopted is to provide a graded series of exercises, each introducing at the same time new features of the software and new techniques or applications for computer-assisted language...

This book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and teaching. It is divided into three parts. Part I focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. These cover the world's first corpus-based TV program for the teaching of English conversation, as well as corpus-based approaches to the teaching of EAP, cultural studies and translation. Part II focuses on new corpus-based tools for LSP learning. Part III illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data and discusses...