Teaching English with Corpora: A Resource Book

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).

Vander Viana is Associate Professor in Education, directs the Master’s course in TESOL and is the founder/leader of the Language in Education Research Group at the University of East Anglia. His areas of research expertise include corpus linguistics, English for academic purposes, TESOL and language teacher education.