MSc in Lexical Computing and Lexicography

LCM12: Corpora and Language Teaching

Over recent years, language teachers have started to explore how they can use the vibrancy of the living language, as accessed through language corpora, in their lessons. In this module we explore how corpora and other electronic resources can be used to enhance language learning and teaching. It looks at the pedagogical issues surrounding data-driven learning and makes links between the design of electronic resources and practical teaching applications. Students will discover and appraise what has been done to date, analyse the role of electronic resources in the classroom, and develop their own language-learning materials.

Content

• Data-driven language learning.
  
• Learners' Dictionaries - strengths and weaknesses.
  
• Monolingual and multilingual corpora in the language classroom.
  
• Corpora and learning to translate.

Reading

Wichmann, A. et al. (eds.). 1997. Teaching and language corpora. London : Longman.

McEnery, A. (ed.). 1994. Corpora in language education and research : a selection of papers from TALC 1. University of Lancaster: UCREL.

Johns, T. 2000. Tim Johns Data-driven Learning Page. Available on the web: http://web.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/timconc.htm

Bernardini, S. et al. 2000. Corpus Use And Learning To Translate. Available on the web: http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/cult2k/

Ghadessy, M. et al (eds). 2001. Small corpus studies and ELT : theory and practice. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins

Tribble, C. & G. Jones. 1997. Concordancing in the classroom. Houston, TX: Athelstan.