Teaching and Language Corpora

TL;DR: This book discusses the use of corpora in teaching, the design of teaching materials, and the role of Corpus and Concordance in Critical Literary Appreciation.

Abstract: Preface Foreward Acknowledgements List of Contributors General Introduction 1 Teaching and Language Corpora: a Convergence, GLeech Section A Why use corpora? 2 Corpus Evidence in Language Description, JM Sinclair 3 Corpora and the Design of Teaching Materials, D Mindt 4 Enriching the Learning Environment: Corpora in ELT, G Aston Section B Teaching Languages 5 All the Languge That's Fit to Print: Using British and American Newspaper CD-ROMs as Corpora, D Minugh 6 Exporing Texts through the Concordancer: Guiding the Learner, L Gavioli 7 Contexts: the Backgroud, Development and Trialling of a Concordance-based CALL Program, T Johns 8 The Automatic Generation of CALL Exercises from General Corpora, E Wilson 9 Exploiting a Corpus of Written German for Advanced Language Learning, W Dodd 10 Creating and Using a Corpus of Spoken German, R Jones 11 The Role of Coropra in Studying and Promoting Welsh,K Ahmad & A Davies Section C Teaching Linguistics 12 Micro- and Macro-linguistics for Natural Language Processing,P Peters 13 Using a Corpus to Evaluate Theories of Child Language Acquisition, B Ketteman 14 Using Corpora for the Diachronic Study of English, G Knowles 15 The Use of an Annotated Speech Corpus in the Teaching of Prosody, A Wichmann 16 Corpus and Concordance: Finding out about Style, H Jackson 17 The Role of Corpora in Critical Literary Appreciation, B Louw 18 Teaching Corpus Linguistics to Teachers of English,A Renouf Section D Practical Perspectives 19 First Catch your Corpus: Building an Undergraduate Corpus of French from Freely Available Textual Resources,G Inkster 20 Creating and Processing Corpora in Greek and Cyrillic Alphabets on the Personal Computer, P King 21 Developing a Computing Infrastructure for Corpus-based Teaching,G Hughes Appendices References Index