Exploring corpora for ESP learning:
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Main Author: Gavioli, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins ©2005
Series:Studies in corpus linguistics v. 21
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-173) and index
Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Key to abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; Corpus linguistics and language teaching and learning; Theoretical premises for teachers and learners; Corpus work, ESP and language learners; Guiding the learners to work with corpora and corpus data; Learners exploring corpora to observe and produce texts; Concluding remarks; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; References; Index; The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics
This book investigates the effects of corpus work on the process of foreign language learning in ESP settings. It suggests that observing learners at work with corpus data can stimulate discussion and re-thinking of the pedagogical implications of both the theoretical and empirical aspects of corpus linguistics. The ideas presented here are developed from the Data-Driven Learning approach introduced by Tim Johns in the early nineties. The experience of watching students perform corpus analysis provides the basis for the two main observations in the book: a) corpus work provides students with a
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 176 pages)
ISBN:9027293937
9789027293930

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