New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning (Corpus and Discourse) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441159967 ISBN 13: 9781441159960

Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2011

Synopsis

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 their implications for language teaching and learning. It will appeal to scholars in both languageteaching and learningand corpus and computational linguistics.

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About the Authors

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia is Auxiliary Professor at the Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração and Universidada Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Guy Aston was Professor of English Language and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy.

Lynne Flowerdew is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441159967
• ISBN 13: 9781441159960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Frankenberg-Garcia Ana, Aston Prof Guy, Flowerdew Dr Lynne