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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971841503321

Titolo

Corpus-informed research and learning in ESP : issues and applications / / edited by Alex Boulton, Shirley Carter-Thomas, Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

9786613558282

9781280380372

1280380373

9789027273949

9027273944

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Studies in corpus linguistics, , 1388-0373 ; ; v. 52

Altri autori (Persone)

BoultonAlex

Carter-ThomasShirley

Rowley-JolivetElizabeth

Disciplina

428.0071

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

English language - Study and teaching - Data processing

English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing

Computational linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. ESP corpora for language research -- pt. 2. ESP corpora for genre-based approaches -- pt. 3. ESP corpora for language teaching and learning.

Sommario/riassunto

Corpus linguistics is commonly concerned with language description, but the tools and techniques can also be used by language learners themselves in what has come to be known as data-driven learning or DDL (Johns & King 1991). This paper reviews 20 studies representing empirical evaluations of corpus use by second or foreign language users within the context of ESP. The wide variety of tools, corpora, course objectives, experiment designs and research questions makes a thorough meta-analysis impossible. However, analysis of the individual papers shows that students can use corpora successfully for ESP and



are generally favourable to the approach, whether as a learning tool (especially for vocabulary and lexico-grammar) or as a reference resource (especially for writing). Keywords: data-driven learning; corpus consultation; language learning; empirical evidence; learning outcomes.