Corpora in the Foreign Language Classroom

Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio is senior lecturer in the English Department at the University of Granada, Spain, where she teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on English language and linguistics. Her doctoral thesis was concerned with Irish theatre (the Abbey Theatre phenomenon) seen under the lenses of mainly discourse analysis. Her current main areas of research include gender studies, critical linguistics and corpus linguistics.Luis Quereda is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Granada, Spain, where he teaches English language and linguistics. His current main areas of research include English descriptive linguistics, contrastive linguistics and corpus linguistics. He is the author of A morphosyntactic study of the English verb phrase and co-editor of Homenaje a J.R. Firth en su centenario.Juan Santana is a senior lecture in the English Department at the University of Granada, Spain, where he teaches English language and linguistics. His current main areas of research include English descriptive linguistics and corpus linguistics. He is the author of La categoría gramatical de pronombre en inglés and co-editor of Homenaje a J.R. Firth en su centenario.

• ForewordEncarnación HIDALGO TENORIO, Luis QUEREDA and Juan SANTANA: I Setting the scene Angela CHAMBERS: Popularising corpus consultation by language learners and teachersStig JOHANSSON: Using corpora: from learning to researchII Theoretical issues: corpus design and exploitation in the foreign language classroom Sabine BRAUN: Designing and exploiting small multimedia corpora for autonomous learning and teachingKiyomi CHUJO, Masao UTIYAMA and Chikako NISHIGAKI: Towards building a usable corpus collection for the ELT classroomPeter Y.W. LAM: A corpus-driven lexico-grammatical analysis of English tourism industry texts and the study of its pedagogic implications in English for Specific PurposesXiaotian GUO: Errors or partial acquisition: a case study of a young English learner’s interlanguageJosta VAN RIJ-HEYLIGERS: To weep perilously or W.EAP critically: the case for a corpus-based critical EAPFanny MEUNIER and Céline GOUVERNEUR: The treatment of phraseology in ELT textbooks Carmen PÉREZ BASANTA and María Elena RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍN: The application of data-driven learning to a small-scale corpus: using film transcripts for teaching conversational skillsIII Practical applications of corpora in the foreign language classroom Stephen COFFEY: Investigating restricted semantic sets in a large general corpus: learning activities for students of English as a foreign language Sara GESUATO: How (dis)similar? Telling the difference between near-synonyms in a foreign languageDavid MINUGH: George Bush and the Last Crusade or the fight for truth, justice and the American waySzilvia PAPP: Inductive learning and self-correction with the use of learner and reference corporaNele OLIVIER, Lieselotte BREMS, Kristin DAVIDSE, Dirk SPEELMAN and Hubert CUYCKENS: Pattern-learning and pattern-description: an integrated approach to proficiency and research for students of English Julia LAVID: Contrastive patterns of mental transitivity in English and Spanish: a student-centered corpus-based studyAgnieszka LEŃKO-SZYMAŃSKA: Past progressive or simple past? The acquisition of progressive aspect by Polish advanced learners of EnglishAndy CRESSWELL: Getting to ‘know’ connectors? Evaluating data-driven learning in a writing skills courseChristopher TRIBBLE: Managing relationships in professional writingAlejandro Curado FUENTES: A corpus-based assessment of reading comprehension in English for Tourism studiesAfterword Bill LOUW: Truth, literary worlds and devices as collocation

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