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Teaching English with Corpora

A Resource Book

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-032-25299-5
Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
Erscheinungstermin: 26.10.2022
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Teaching English with Corpora is an accessible and practical introduction to the ways in which online and offline corpora can be used in English language teaching (ELT).

Featuring 70 chapters written by an international range of researchers and practitioners, this book:

• provides readers with clear, tested examples of corpus-based/driven lesson plans;

• contains activities relevant to English for general purposes and English for specific purposes;

• caters for the needs of English language teachers working with learners at different proficiency levels;

• features flexible teaching suggestions that can be explored as part of a lesson or as a full lesson.

This book is an essential purchase for pre- and in-service English language teachers as well as those studying corpus linguistics in undergraduate/Master’s courses in applied linguistics, ELT and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781032252995
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-032-25299-5
  • Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
  • Erscheinungstermin: 26.10.2022
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2022
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 730 g
  • Seiten: 394
  • Format (B x H x T): 156 x 234 x 22 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Viana, Vander

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of abbreviations

List of appendices

Acknowledgements

At-a-glance chapter taxonomy

Introduction

Corpora in and for TESOL

Vander Viana

Part A: English for General Purposes

- Using concordance lines to teach participial adjectives

Sean Sutherland

- Starting out with phrasal verbs

Rosie Harvey & Irene Marín Cervantes

- Teaching collocations with ‘Survey Says’

Robin Sulkosky

- A grand problem and a jolly solution: Unmasking false friends with corpus analysis

Natalie Finlayson

- Raising awareness of first-language interference using parallel corpora of subtitles

Elen Le Foll

- If you speak English, take one step forward: Teaching conditionals through kinesthetic activities

Riah Werner

- Preposition repair: Empowering learners to fix their errors

Amy Tate

- KWIC searches for quick answers: Solving word choice problems

Pamela Everly

- She said she told him: Patterning in reported speech

Michael H. Brown

- Using VocabProfilers to select texts for extensive reading activities

Thi Ngoc Yen Dang

- Talking about the weather: Exploring adjective use with Sketch Engine for Language Learning

John Williams

- Food talks: Using corpus data to link cooking methods with types of food

Vander Viana

- Profiling let and make with the Corpus of Contemporary American English

Ben Naismith

- Corpus exploration of phrasal and Latinate verbs

Eric Nicaise

- Minimal prep quizzes: Using online corpora to foster vocabulary learning

Nick Canning

- Helping learners identify high-frequency words

Shoaziz Sharakhimov & Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov

- Writing online reviews

Natalia Mora-López

- Exploring similes in corpus data

Natalie Finlayson

- Exploring register variation in the use of indefinite pronouns

Irina Pandarova

- Using corpora to explore varieties of English

Natalie Finlayson

- Searching for frequent words for pronunciation activities

Roger W. Gee

- Abstract nouns in picture descriptions

Tomáš Mach

- Tell me what your collocates are and I will tell you who you are

Tülay Dixon & Daniel Dixon

- I feel kinda blah! Investigating language use in blogs

Maristella Gatto

- I see what you mean: Exploring figurative uses of language

Sally Zacharias & Jane Evison

- I was able to learn a new point: Examining the difference between could and was/were able to

Martha Michieka & Theresa McGarry

- Learning about words in use with StringNet Navigator

Anastasiia Kryzhanivska

- Investigating adverbials in British English: Although vs. though in spoken and written language

Lu Lu

- Using Voyant Tools to enhance learners’ reflections on their writing

Nausica Marcos Miguel

- Gender equality in the TESOL classroom: Exploring news stories from around the world

Vander Viana

- Phrasal verbs in use: Investigating meaning and form

Vander Viana

- Keywords in amateur online film reviews

Chad Langford & Joshua Albair

- Formulaic language in amateur online film reviews

Chad Langford & Joshua Albair

- Exploring semantic prosody with trainee teachers

Jenny Kemp & Luke Timms

- A smile which melted her heart: Exploring metaphors in English corpora

Wendy Anderson

- Small words? Discourse markers in spoken language

Loretta Fung

- I’m so sorry: Intensification in American English across time

Anne Barron

- Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness

Anne Barron

- Whilst I do not object, I strongly believe. Exploring spoken argumentative and persuasive discourse

Elen Le Foll

- Register variation in newspapers: Working with multidimensional analysis in English language teacher education

Vander Viana

Part B: English for Specific Purposes

- Exploring terms in English for specific purposes

Nicole Brun-Mercer

- Teaching verbs using learner-compiled corpora

Peter Dye

- Is there a better choice? Verb-noun combinations in academic writing

Valdenia Almeida, Barbara Malveira Orfanò & Deise Dutra

- Problem and solution markers: Exploring lexical combinations

Eman Elturki

- Cloze exercises for mixed-ability groups: Using the Academic Word List Gapmaker

Loretta Fung

- Signaling transitions in academic writing

Nicole Brun-Mercer

- Boosting your message: Using adverbs for impact in business writing

Linda Slattery, Catherine Prewett-Schrempf, Andrew Pullen & Matthew Urmston

- Using the British National Corpus to teach phrases from spoken and academic English

Pawel Szudarski

- Using keyness to teach about academic speaking

Michael Suhan & Kyle Lucas

- Teaching small-group academic discussions

Valeriia Bogorevich & Elnaz Kia

- Which words should I look up? Identifying unknown high-frequency words in English for academic purposes

Jenny Kemp & Laurence Anthony

- Reflecting and acting on academic vocabulary use

Katie Mitchell Burrows

- Which verb should I use? Disciplinary variation in reporting verbs

Joseph J. Lee

- Using Google Scholar to support lexical choices in English for academic purposes

Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov & Randall Sadler

- Exploring collocations in the Corpus of Contemporary American English

Sharon Hartle

- How can I be more specific in my writing? Exploring relative pronouns in English for academic purposes

Jenny Kemp & Laurence Anthony

- Don’t write like that! Avoiding contractions in academic writing

Megan Bruce

- Climate change or global warming? Analyzing, interpreting and reporting findings

Robert Poole

- Research findings for all: Popular science communication on global challenges

Luciano Franco & Vander Viana

- Exploring the speech act of confirming/verifying information in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English

Ildiko Porter-Szucs

- Identifying noun–verb patterns in scientific abstracts

Mónica Rodríguez-Castro & Spencer Salas

- Using a concordancer to teach how to write about results

Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe

- Using corpora to explore vocabulary for writing conclusions

Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe

- Finding your academic voice: Use of nominalizations in academic writing

Megan Bruce

- Investigating complex noun–noun modification in academic prose

Sabrina Fusari

- Exploring adverbs for cohesion and critical voice

Andrew Drummond

- Exploring discipline-specific and paper-specific vocabulary

Anastasiia Kryzhanivska

- Language patterns and rhetorical moves in research papers

Eman Elturki

- Investigating references to a celebrity in a do-it-yourself obituary corpus

Rudy Loock

- Thanking politely and saying no gracefully to business invitations

Lisa Leopold

About the contributors

Index