Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning: 21 (Studies in Corpus Linguistics) - Hardcover

Gavioli, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027222924 ISBN 13: 9789027222923

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2005

Synopsis

This book investigates the effects of corpus work on the process of foreign language learning in ESP settings. It suggests that observing learners at work with corpus data can stimulate discussion and re-thinking of the pedagogical implications of both the theoretical and empirical aspects of corpus linguistics. The ideas presented here are developed from the Data-Driven Learning approach introduced by Tim Johns in the early nineties. The experience of watching students perform corpus analysis provides the basis for the two main observations in the book: a) corpus work provides students with a useful source of information about ESP language features, b) the process of "search-and-discovery" implied in the method of corpus analysis may facilitate language learning and promote autonomy in learning language use. The discussion is carried out on the basis of a series of corpus-based "explorations" by students and provides suggestions for developing new tasks and tools for language learners.

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Synopsis

While corpus studies have been applied to language teaching, learners' language, and translation teaching in the past decade, Gavioli (U. of Medena and Reggion Emilia) found little study on its application to learners of English as a foreign language. For materials' designers, teachers, and applied linguists in general, she argues that analyzing co

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027222924
• ISBN 13: 9789027222923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 189