A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners: Empowering Language Learners to Become Independent Learners Through Corpus-aided Discovery and Investigation - Tapa dura

Poole, Robert

 
9781474427166: A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners: Empowering Language Learners to Become Independent Learners Through Corpus-aided Discovery and Investigation
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ISBN 10: 1474427162 ISBN 13: 9781474427166
Editorial: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Sinopsis

This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom, this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. It guides you through the application of corpus searches for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen your development into an autonomous language learner and help instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided language learning.

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Robert Poole is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Alabama. He has taught English in Nicaragua and South Korea as well as several language institutes in the US. His research focuses on corpus-aided approaches to language teaching and learning and corpus-aided discourse analysis.

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Unlock the potential of corpus linguistics for language learningThis textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom, this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning.It guides you through the application of corpus searches for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen your development into an autonomous language learner and help instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided language learning.Key Features:•Think About It boxes include reflective activities•Your Turn boxes contain hands-on activities•Screenshots guide the reader through the learning and discovery experience•References a variety of popular corpora including COCA, BNC and GloWbE•Includes a directory of online resources and a short glossary of key terms

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Editorial
Edinburgh University Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1474427162
ISBN 13 
9781474427166
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Número de páginas
184
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