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).
Author(s): Vander Viana
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 393
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
At-a-glance chapter taxonomy
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
List of Appendices
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Corpora in and for TESOL
PART A English for general purposes
1 Using concordance lines to teach participial adjectives
2 Starting out with phrasal verbs
3 Teaching collocations with “Survey Says”
4 A grand problem and a jolly solution: unmasking false friends with corpus analysis
5 Raising awareness of first-language interference using parallel corpora of subtitles
6 If you speak English, take one step forward: teaching conditionals through kinesthetic activities
7 Preposition repair: empowering learners to fix their errors
8 KWIC searches for quick answers: solving word choice problems
9 She said she told him: patterning in reported speech
10 Using VocabProfilers to select texts for extensive reading activities
11 Talking about the weather: exploring adjective use with Sketch Engine for Language Learning
12 Food talks: using corpus data to link cooking methods with types of food
13 Profiling let and make with the Corpus of Contemporary American English
14 Corpus exploration of phrasal and Latinate verbs
15 Minimal prep quizzes: using online corpora to foster vocabulary learning
16 Helping learners identify high-frequency words
17 Writing online reviews
18 Exploring similes in corpus data
19 Exploring register variation in the use of indefinite pronouns
20 Using corpora to explore varieties of English
21 Searching for frequent words for pronunciation activities
22 Abstract nouns in picture descriptions
23 Tell me what your collocates are, and I will tell you who you are
24 I feel kinda blah! Investigating language use in blogs
25 I see what you mean: exploring figurative uses of language
26 I was able to learn a new point: examining the difference between could and was/were able to
27 Learning about words in use with StringNet Navigator
28 Investigating adverbials in British English: although vs. though in spoken and written language
29 Using Voyant Tools to enhance learners’ reflections on their writing
30 Gender equality in the TESOL classroom: exploring news stories from around the world
31 Phrasal verbs in use: investigating meaning and form
32 Keywords in amateur online film reviews
33 Formulaic language in amateur online film reviews
34 Exploring semantic prosody with trainee teachers
35 A smile which melted her heart: exploring metaphors in English corpora
36 Small words? Discourse markers in spoken language
37 I’m so sorry: intensification in American English across time
38 Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: language patterning and contextual appropriateness
39 Whilst I do not object, I strongly believe… Exploring spoken argumentative and persuasive discourse
40 Register variation in newspapers: working with multidimensional analysis in English language teacher education
PART B English for specific purposes
41 Exploring terms in English for specific purposes
42 Teaching verbs using learner-compiled corpora
43 Is there a better choice? Verb–noun combinations in academic writing
44 Problem and solution markers: exploring lexical combinations
45 Cloze exercises for mixed-ability groups: using the Academic Word List Gapmaker
46 Signaling transitions in academic writing
47 Boosting your message: using adverbs for impact in business writing
48 Using the British National Corpus to teach phrases from spoken and academic English
49 Using keyness to teach about academic speaking
50 Teaching small-group academic discussions
51 Which words should I look up? Identifying unknown high- frequency words in English for academic purposes
52 Reflecting and acting on academic vocabulary use
53 Which verb should I use? Disciplinary variation in reporting verbs
54 Using Google Scholar to support lexical choices in English for academic purposes
55 Exploring collocations in the Corpus of Contemporary American English
56 How can I be more specific in my writing? Exploring relative pronouns in English for academic purposes
57 Don’t write like that! Avoiding contractions in academic writing
58 Climate change or global warming? Analyzing, interpreting, and reporting findings
59 Research findings for all: popular science communication on global challenges
60 Exploring the speech act of confirming/verifying information in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
61 Identifying noun–verb patterns in scientific abstracts
62 Using a concordancer to teach how to write about results
63 Using corpora to explore vocabulary for writing conclusions
64 Finding your academic voice: use of nominalizations in academic writing
65 Investigating complex noun–noun modification in academic prose
66 Exploring adverbs for cohesion and critical voice
67 Exploring discipline-specific and paper-specific vocabulary
68 Language patterns and rhetorical moves in research papers
69 Investigating references to a celebrity in a do-it-yourself obituary corpus
70 Thanking politely and saying no gracefully to business invitations
About the contributors
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