Teaching English with Corpora

*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.

Autorentext

Vander Viana is Associate Professor in Education, directs the Master's course in TESOL and is the founder/leader of the Language in Education Research Group at the University of East Anglia. His areas of research expertise include corpus linguistics, English for academic purposes, TESOL and language teacher education.

Klappentext

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).

Inhalt

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

1. Using concordance lines to teach participial adjectives ** Sean Sutherland

2. Starting out with phrasal verbs ** Rosie Harvey & Irene Marín Cervantes

3. Teaching collocations with 'Survey Says' ** Robin Sulkosky

4. A grand problem and a jolly solution: Unmasking false friends with corpus analysis ** Natalie Finlayson

5. Raising awareness of first-language interference using parallel corpora of subtitles ** Elen Le Foll

6. If you speak English, take one step forward: Teaching conditionals through kinesthetic activities ** Riah Werner

7. Preposition repair: Empowering learners to fix their errors ** Amy Tate

8. KWIC searches for quick answers: Solving word choice problems ** Pamela Everly

9. She said she told him: Patterning in reported speech ** Michael H. Brown

10. Using VocabProfilers to select texts for extensive reading activities ** Thi Ngoc Yen Dang

11. Talking about the weather: Exploring adjective use with Sketch Engine for Language Learning ** John Williams

12. Food talks: Using corpus data to link cooking methods with types of food ** Vander Viana

13. Profiling let and make with the Corpus of Contemporary American English ** Ben Naismith

14. Corpus exploration of phrasal and Latinate verbs ** Eric Nicaise

15. Minimal prep quizzes: Using online corpora to foster vocabulary learning ** Nick Canning

16. Helping learners identify high-frequency words ** Shoaziz Sharakhimov & Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov

17. Writing online reviews ** Natalia Mora-López

18. Exploring similes in corpus data ** Natalie Finlayson

19. Exploring register variation in the use of indefinite pronouns ** Irina Pandarova

20. Using corpora to explore varieties of English ** Natalie Finlayson

21. Searching for frequent words for pronunciation activities ** Roger W. Gee

22. Abstract nouns in picture descriptions ** Tomá Mach

23. Tell me what your collocates are and I will tell you who you are ** Tülay Dixon & Daniel Dixon

24. I feel kinda blah! Investigating language use in blogs ** Maristella Gatto

25. I see what you mean: Exploring figurative uses of language ** Sally Zacharias & Jane Evison

26. I was able to learn a new point: Examining the difference between could and was/were able to
    Martha Michieka & Theresa McGarry

27. Learning about words in use with StringNet Navigator ** Anastasiia Kryzhanivska

28. Investigating adverbials in British English: Although vs. though in spoken and written language ** Lu Lu

29. Using Voyant Tools to enhance learners' reflections on their writing ** Nausica Marcos Miguel

30. Gender equality in the TESOL classroom: Exploring news stories from around the world ** Vander Viana

31. Phrasal verbs in use: Investigating meaning and form ** Vander Viana

32. Keywords in amateur online film reviews ** Chad Langford & Joshua Albair

33. Formulaic language in amateur online film reviews ** Chad Langford & Joshua Albair

34. Exploring semantic prosody with trainee teachers ** Jenny Kemp & Luke Timms

35. A smile which melted her heart: Exploring metaphors in English corpora ** Wendy Anderson

36. Small words? Discourse markers in spoken language ** Loretta Fung

37. I'm so sorry: Intensification in American English across time ** Anne Barron

38. Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness ** Anne Barron

39. Whilst I do not object, I strongly believe... Exploring spoken argumentative and persuasive discourse ** Elen Le Foll

40. Register variation in newspapers: Working with multidimensional analysis in English language teacher education Vander Viana ** Part B: English for Specific Purposes

41. Exploring terms in English for specific purposes ** Nicole Brun-Mercer

42. Teaching verbs using learner-compiled corpora ** Peter Dye

43. Is there a better choice? Verb-noun combinations in academic writing ** Valdenia Almeida, Barbara Malveira Orfanò & Deise Dutra

44. Problem and solution markers: Exploring lexical combinations ** Eman Elturki

45. Cloze exercises for mixed-ability groups: Using the Academic Word List Gapmaker ** Loretta Fung

46. Signaling transitions in academic writing ** Nicole Brun-Mercer

47. Boosting your message: Using adverbs for impact in business writing ** Linda Slattery, Catherine Prewett-Schrempf, Andrew Pullen & Matthew Urmston

48. Using the British National Corpus to teach phrases from spoken and academic English ** Pawe Szudarski

49. Using keyness to teach about academic speaking ** Michael Suhan & Kyle Lucas

50. Teaching small-group academic discussions ** Valeriia Bogorevich & Elnaz Kia

51. Which words should I look up? Identifying unknown high-frequency words in English for academic purposes ** Jenny Kemp & Laurence Anthony

52. Reflecting and acting on academic vocabulary use ** Katie Mitchell Burrows

53. Which verb should I use? Disciplinary variation in reporting verbs ** Joseph J. Lee

54. Using Google Scholar to support lexical choices in English for academic purposes ** Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov & Randall Sadler

55. Exploring collocations in the Corpus of Contemporary American English ** Sharon Hartle

56. How can I be more specific in my writing? Exploring relative pronouns in English for academic purposes ** Jenny Kemp & Laurence Anthony

57. Don't write like that! Avoiding contractions in academic writing ** Megan Bruce

58. Climate change or global warming? Analyzing, interpreting and reporting findings ** Robert Poole

59. Research findings for all: Popular science communication on global challenges ** Luciano Franco & Vander Viana

60. Exploring the speech act of confirming/verifying information in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English ** Ildiko Porter-Szucs

61. Identifying noun-verb patterns in scientific abstracts ** Mónica Rodríguez-Castro & Spencer Salas

62. Using a concord…