Textual Patterns: Key words and corpus analysis in language education: 22 (Studies in Corpus Linguistics) - Softcover

Scott, Mike; Tribble, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027222940 ISBN 13: 9789027222947

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2006

Synopsis

Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematic study of vocabulary and genre, can form the basis for a corpus informed approach to language teaching. The first part of the book gives the reader a strong grounding in the way in which language teachers can use corpus analysis tools (wordlists, concordances, key words) to describe language patterns in general and text patterns in particular. The second section presents a series of case studies which show how a key word / corpus informed approach to language education can work in practice. The case studies include: General language education (i.e. students in national education systems and those following international examination programmes), foreign languages for academic purposes, literature in language education, business and professional communication, and cultural studies in language education.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027222940
• ISBN 13: 9789027222947
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214