| Corpora for University Language Teachers Contributor(s): Gotti, Maurizio (Editor), Taylor Torsello, Carol (Editor), Ackerley, Katherine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3039116398 ISBN-13: 9783039116393 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $133.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Education | Language Experience Approach |
| Dewey: 418.007 |
| LCCN: 2008041440 |
| Series: Linguistic Insights |
| Physical Information: 322 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume is made up of 17 chapters which have developed out of papers and workshop sessions presented at the event entitled Corpora: Seminar and Workshops , held at the University of Padua, March 29-31, 2007. It maintains the straightforward, practical approach which characterized that event, meant as an introduction to the use of corpora even for novices. At the same time it goes into a wide range of different applications for corpora in language teaching and language research in higher education. One of these involves the creation and use of learner corpora. Another application involves corpus-assisted research into political discourse in the media. Language for special purposes is also focussed on as a research topic, an academic discipline, and language to be translated. Multimodal corpora are also considered. Proposals are made for corpus-based research into the language of films, and into translation (and mediation) universals. A corpus-based study of text complexity in reading tests is also presented. Large-scale corpora commercially available are also discussed. An online module for translator training is presented, as is an Internet-accessible corpus of Old English poetry. |