Rethinking Language Pedagogy from a Corpus Perspective: Papers from the third international conference on Teaching and Language Corpora (Lodz Studies in Language) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631365543 ISBN 13: 9783631365540

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2000

Synopsis

This selection of edited papers from the third international conference on Teaching and Language Corpora, held at Keble College Oxford in 1998, bears witness to the continued expansion of this interdisciplinary field. The use of computer corpora is no longer seen as an end in itself, but rather as an indispensable tool in language pedagogy, both by providing better grounded decisions about the topics to be taught and by facilitating the production of better teaching materials. Computer corpora also encourage a shift towards learner-centred exploratory teaching practice, which are shown to be effective in a wide variety of contexts.

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About the Author

The Editors: Lou Burnard is manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University Computing Services. He is the author, with Guy Aston, of The BNC Handbook, and European editor of the Text Encoding Initiative’s Guidelines for the Encoding of Machine Readable Texts.
Tony McEnery is Reader at Lancaster University’s Department of Linguistics and series editor of Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics. His publications include standard textbooks on Corpus Linguistics and several previous volumes on Teaching and Language Corpora and on Multilingual Corpora.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631365543
• ISBN 13: 9783631365540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Burnard Lou, McEnery Tony