Robert Poole

A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners

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Produktbeschreibung

This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning.It provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• 50, 000-55, 000 ed.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 172mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781474427173
• ISBN-10: 1474427170
• Artikelnr.: 52959561

Autorenporträt

Robert Poole is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Alabama. He has taught English in Nicaragua and South Korea as well as several language institutes in the US. His research focuses on corpus-aided approaches to language teaching and learning and corpus-aided discourse analysis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Learning the Essentials
Chapter 2: Corpus Searches for Vocabulary Learning
Chapter 3: Corpus Searches for Writing
Chapter 4: Corpus Searches for Cultural Study and Conversation Topics
Chapter 5: Building Your Own Corpus
Corpus Resources; Additional Readings; Glossary