New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning

Lynne Flowerdew is a Senior Lecturer at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China.

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia is Auxiliary Professor at the Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administraço and Universidada Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Guy Aston is Professor of English Language and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy.

Introduction \ Preface by Lou Burnard \ Part I. Corpora with language learners \ 1. TALC in action: recent innovations in corpus-based English language teaching in Japan Yukio Tono \ 2. Using a corpus to teach rhetorical functions: students' evaluation of a hands-on concordancing approach Maggie Charles \ 3. Tracing the Emo side of life: using a corpus of an alternative youth culture discourse to teach cultural studies Bernhard Kettemann \ 4.Working with different corpora in translation teaching Natalie Kübler \ 5. A guided collaboration tool for online concordancing with EAP learners Przemyslaw Kaszubski \ Part II. Corpora for language learners \ 6. A corpus-based approach to automatic feedback for learners' miscollocations Anne Li-E Liu, David Wible and Nai-Lung Tsao \ 7. Multimodal functional-notional concordancing Francesca Coccetta \ 8. Academic language and corpus integration in context-based MT Alejandro Curado Fuentes \ 9. Using Corpora in the Learning and Teaching of Phraseological Variation Martin Warren \ 10. The SACODEYL search tool: exploiting corpora for language learning purposes Johannes Widmann, Kurt Kohn and Ramon Ziai \ Part III. Corpora by language learners: learner language \ 11. Oral learner corpora and assessment of speaking skills John Osborne \ 12. Positive and negative evaluation in native and learner speech Sylvie De Cock \ 13. BAWE: an introduction to a new resource Hilary Nesi \ 14. Exploring the marking of stance in argumentative essays written by EFL learners and native speakers of English Anna-Maria Hatzitheodorou and Marina Mattheoudakis \ 15. Polishing papers for publication: palimpsests or procrustean beds? John McKenny and Karen Bennett \ Bibliography \ Index