Data-Driven Learning for the Next Generation: Corpora and DDL for Pre-tertiary Learners - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138388017 ISBN 13: 9781138388017

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Despite advancements in and availability of corpus software in language classrooms facilitating data-driven learning (DDL), the use of such methods with pre-tertiary learners remains rare. This book specifically explores the affordances of DDL for younger learners, testing its viability with teachers and students at the primary and secondary years of schooling. It features eminent and up-and-coming researchers from Europe, Asia, and Australasia who seek to address best practice in implementing DDL with younger learners, while providing a wealth of empirical findings and practical DDL activities ready for use in the pre-tertiary classroom.

Divided into three parts, the volume's first section focuses on overcoming emerging challenges for DDL with younger learners, including where and how DDL can be integrated into pre-tertiary curricula, as well as potential barriers to this integration. It then considers new, cutting-edge innovations in corpora and corpus software for use with younger learners in the second section, before reporting on actual DDL studies performed with younger learners (and/or their teachers) at the primary and secondary levels of education.

This book will appeal to post-graduate students, academics and researchers with interests in corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, primary and secondary literacy education, and language and educational technologies.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Crosthwaite is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138388017
• ISBN 13: 9781138388017
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Crosthwaite Peter