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  • Sērija : Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2020
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  • ISBN-10: 0367198436
  • ISBN-13: 9780367198435
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 176 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 285 g, 51 Tables, black and white; 23 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 42 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sērija : Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2020
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367198436
  • ISBN-13: 9780367198435
"Corpus Linguistics for Education Research provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the use of corpus research-methods in the field of education. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of educationally relevant topics, this book: covers 18 key skills including corpus building, the role of frequency, different corpus methods, transcription and annotation; demonstrates the use of available corpora and desktop and online corpus analysis tools to conduct original analyses; features case studies and step-by-step guides within each chapter; emphasizes the use of interview data in research projects. Corpus Linguistics for Education Research is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in education"--

Corpus Linguistics for Education provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the use of corpus research-methods in the field of education. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of educationally relevant topics, this book:

• covers 18 key skills including corpus building, the role of frequency, different corpus methods, transcription and annotation;

• demonstrates the use of available corpora and desktop and online corpus analysis tools to conduct original analyses;

• features case studies and step-by-step guides within each chapter;

• emphasises the use of interview data in research projects.

Corpus Linguistics for Education

is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in education.

List of figures
x
List of tables
xii
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xviii
1 Introduction: corpus linguistics and education research
1(19)
1.1 What is corpus linguistics?
1(7)
1.2 The role of corpus linguistics research methods in education research
8(3)
1.3 Understanding the role of frequency
11(9)
1.3.1 Frequency in L1 learning and use
11(1)
1.3.2 Frequency in public discourse
12(2)
1.3.3 Frequency in texts or groups of texts
14(1)
1.3.4 Why frequency matters
15(1)
1.3.5 How to interpret frequency
16(2)
References
18(2)
2 Analysing text
20(15)
2.1 Different approaches to text analysis
20(7)
2.2 Text as register
27(8)
2.2.1 Corpus linguistics and the analysis of register
27(5)
References
32(3)
3 Corpus linguistics approaches to understanding language use
35(29)
3.1 Understanding and researching language use: discovering patterns
35(7)
3.1.1 Corpus linguistics outside linguistics?
35(3)
3.1.2 Case study
1. Examining interviews: qualitative versus CL methods
38(1)
3.1.3 Case study
2. Examining policies: combining content analysis and corpus methods
39(1)
3.1.4 Using an existing corpus
40(2)
3.2 Reading concordance lines
42(9)
3.2.1 How to read concordance lines
45(6)
3.3 Handling frequencies
51(5)
3.3.1 Corpus size and relative frequencies
51(5)
3.4 Collocations
56(8)
References
61(3)
4 Researching education policies: using your own corpus
64(24)
4.1 Basic corpus design features
64(9)
4.1.1 Designing corpora
64(9)
4.2 Comparison basics and significance testing
73(10)
4.2.1 Comparison basics and part-of-speech (POS) tagging
74(9)
4.3 Reviewing skills 1--11
83(5)
4.3.1
Chapter 1
84(1)
4.3.2
Chapter 2
85(1)
4.3.3
Chapter 3
86(1)
4.3.4
Chapter 4
86(1)
References
87(1)
5 Interview data: transcription and annotation
88(29)
5.1 Transcription: so much more than a monotonous task
88(3)
5.2 Transcription basics
91(5)
5.3 Adding structure and metadata to a corpus
96(21)
5.3.1 Annotating a corpus using our own tags
104(4)
5.3.2 Annotating a corpus using standard XML guidelines
108(8)
References
116(1)
6 Examining lexis: analysing peace treaties and children's literature
117(33)
6.1 Examining lexis
117(1)
6.2 Researching the lexicon: keywords
117(16)
6.2.1 Introducing keyword analysis
120(1)
6.2.2 Keyword analysis: a step-by-step guide
121(12)
6.3 Researching nouns and noun phrases
133(9)
6.3.1 Exploring individual nouns
135(4)
6.3.2 Exploring multiword units
139(3)
6.4 Analysing children's literature: the lexicon of fiction
142(8)
References
147(3)
7 Analysing talk: complex searches
150(18)
7.1 Examining talk: a linguistic perspective
150(3)
7.2 Complex searches
153(13)
7.2.1 Living in a city
154(6)
7.2.2 Understanding cultural differences
160(1)
7.2.3 How is their family life impacted by work?
161(5)
7.3 Putting it all together: reviewing skills 12--17
166(2)
7.3.1
Chapter 5
166(1)
7.3.2
Chapter 6
166(1)
7.3.3
Chapter 7
166(1)
References
167(1)
8 Conclusion
168(3)
References
170(1)
Index 171
Pascual Pérez-Paredes is Professor in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the English Department, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. At the time of writing this book he was Lecturer in Research in Second Language Education (201519) and Overall Coordinator of the MEd Research Methods Strand (201619) at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. His main research interests are learner language variation, the use of corpora in language education and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. He has published research in journals such as Computer Assisted Language Learning , Discourse & Society, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Pragmatics, Language, Learning & Technology, System, ReCALL and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and is an Assistant Editor of CUP ReCALL journal.