Corpora in Language Teaching

Flowerdew, John

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“…Flowerdew (2011) insisted that even the largest corpora contain "less language than the average user will have experienced in their daily life" (p. 328). Moreover, the authenticity of the linguistic content in corpora is challenged when Flowerdew (2011) claimed that the language found in corpora is different from the language that native speakers experience in their daily life. The reason of these claims is due to the corpora being compiled mostly from written language, hence, corpora do not reflect the spoken language correctly.…”

Section: Conclusion: Benefits and Limitations Of Corpora In Language mentioning

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The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

Almutairi¹

2016

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Using corpora in language teaching has revolutionized language research with its 'authentic' appeal. Corpus tools have enabled linguistic researchers and teachers to investigate actual usages and the characteristics of certain genres in order to improve syllabus design and infer more effective classroom exercises. From this perspective, this paper attempts to use corpus tools to investigate the characteristics of one of the most important requirements of university programs admissions which is the personal statement. Despite the immense importance of writing a personal statement in the lives of students wanting to enroll in universities, little research has been conducted on its instructions. More importantly, teaching its features to university students has been neglected although personal statements are an essential genre that should be emphasized in academic writing classes or university preparation courses. The paper aims to investigate if compiling a corpus of personal statements can lead to creating an effective corpus-based activities to be taught in teaching writing a personal statement. Then the paper attempts to evaluate the pedagogical implications of using corpus-based activities and criticized the weaknesses and strengths of corpora as a resource in language teaching. This paper chose to focus on personal statements collected from law students due to the high demand on law colleges in Saudi Arabia and the difficulty of admission requirements. This study used Sketch Engine® to complie a corpus of sixty-seven personal statement with a total word count of 50, 691, then analysed the lexio-grammatical features. The results were used to create corpus-based excersises to be taught in writing courses teaching personal statements.

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Section: Conclusion: Benefits and Limitations Of Corpora In Language mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

Almutairi¹

2016

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“…As learners focus on a target word across different contexts, which are continuous and extendable on request, they can develop awareness of how the word is used in real situations. The knowledge potentially gained from DDL is thought to cover a range of word-specific linguistic information, including meaning, syntax, usage, collocation, colligation, set phrases, morphology, semantic preference, semantic prosody, frequency, typicality, register, discourse and style and so on (Boulton 2009;Flowerdew 2009;Levy 1990). Such rich information is unlikely to be fully included in any reference materials.…”

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Introducing “mobile DDL (data-driven learning)” for vocabulary learning: an experiment for academic English

Quan

2016

J. Comput. Educ.

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Learning words in repetition and in context may be conducive to effective vocabulary acquisition. Research in corpus linguistics and mobile learning can provide pedagogical and technical support for the strategies. DDL (data-driven learning), an approach which features concordancing through a large number of text collection, can facilitate direct and intensive exposure to authentic language in use; the ubiquitous mobile technology nowadays can enable contextual learning experience anytime, anywhere. Thus, ''mobile DDL'' may synergise DDL and mobile learning, and this combination is a proposal to enhance vocabulary learning with emerging technology. This paper reports an experiment on mobile DDL in the context of academic English. A mobile app was specially designed and developed for voluntary participants in this research to look up core academic words in authentic academic texts. Through passive data capture, questionnaire and interview, it was found that DDL could be adapted to mobile devices. However, the approach was not well acceptable to the intermediate-level students in this research, despite their familiarity with mobile technology in daily life. Major adjustments to DDL seem necessary if mobile DDL is to assist learners at large in vocabulary learning.

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“…Finally, I am going to talk very briefly about the indirect applications and direct applications (Flowerdew 2009) of the corpus approach in more general terms. One of the main areas of indirect application is the compilation of dictionaries.…”

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Corpus-based approaches to language description for specialized academic writing

Flowerdew

2014

Lang. Teach.

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Language description is a fundamental requirement for second language (L2) syllabus design. The greatest advances in language description in recent decades have been done with the help of electronic corpora. Such language description is the theme of this article. The article first introduces some basic concepts and principles in corpus research. It then reviews some recent corpus studies of relevance to the teaching of English for specific purposes (ESP) writing. The speech focuses on four different types of corpora: expert professional corpora, expert student corpora, L2 learner corpora, and lingua franca corpora. It also discusses application of the corpus approach, including indirect applications and direct applications. In a final section, it presents some caveats of the corpus approach for future language teaching research.

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Corpora in Language Teaching

Cited by 26 publications

References 65 publications

The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

Introducing “mobile DDL (data-driven learning)” for vocabulary learning: an experiment for academic English

Corpus-based approaches to language description for specialized academic writing

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