Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching

Tony Harris is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Granada. One of his main areas of research is non-verbal communication in language teaching. He has published numerous articles such as «Listening with your eyes: the importance of speech-related gestures in the language classroom» in Foreign Language Annals and «Teacher gestures» in Teacher Trainer. He is currently working on a multimodal analysis of nonverbal behaviour in film clips.María Moreno Jaén lectures in Applied Linguistics at the University of Granada. She has published a number of articles on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), corpus-based lexical teaching and testing, including the recent «An update of ADELEX: Developing the lexical competence of Spanish university students through ICT in the ESHE» in Computer Assisted Language Learning, co-authored with Carmen Pérez Basanta. She has co-edited issues in journals such as Language Forum and Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics.

• Contents: Tony Harris/María Moreno Jaén: Introduction – Alex Boulton: Data-Driven Learning: On Paper, in Practice – Pascual Pérez-Paredes: Corpus Linguistics and Language Education in Perspective: Appropriation and the Possibilities Acenario – Sabine Braun: Getting past ‘Groundhog Day’: Spoken Multimedia Corpora for Student-centred Corpus Exploration – Angela Chambers: Contrastive Language Data: From Translation Studies to Language Learning and Teaching – Stefan Th. Gries: Methodological skills in Corpus Linguistics: A Polemic and Some Pointers towards Quantitative Methods – María Elena Rodríguez Martín: Comparing Parts of Speech and Semantic Domains in the BNC and a Micro-corpus of Movies: Is Film Language the ‘Real Thing’? – Anthony Baldry/Kay L. O’Halloran: Research into the Annotation of a Multimodal Corpus of University Websites: An Illustration of Multimodal Corpus Linguistics.

«(...) the present volume makes a strong contribution to the field of corpus linguistics application in language teaching.» (Papaioannou Vasiliki, The Linguist List)