Teaching and Learning by Doing Corpus Analysis: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora, Graz 19-24 July, 2000

From the contents: Guy ASTON: The learner as corpus designer. - Antoinette RENOUF: The time dimension in modern English corpus linguistics. - Mike SCOTT: Picturing the key words of a very large corpus and their lexical upshots or getting at the guardian's view of the world. - Lou BURNARD: The BNC: where did we go wrong? Corpus-based teaching material. - Averil COXHEAD: The academic word list: a corpus-based word list for academic purposes.

Bernhard Kettemann is professor of English linguistics at the Department of English Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria. His main research interests are computer applications in linguistics and the linguistic dimensions of foreign language teaching. He has been on the organizing committees of the last three TALC conferences and he organized the TALC 2000 conference at Graz.
Georg Marko teaches linguistics at the Department of English Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria. He is finishing his PhD dissertation on a critical discourse analysis of a corpus of pornographic texts. He was part of the organizing committee of TALC 2000 at Graz.