Acknowledgments |
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Key to abbreviations and acronyms |
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A note for the reader |
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction |
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1.2 Corpora and "models" of language |
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1.4 The corpora in this book |
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1.4.1 Small corpora and specialized corpora |
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1.4.2 Description of the corpora used here |
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1.5 A word about concordances and concordancing tools |
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1.7 How the book is organized |
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CHAPTER 2 Corpus linguistics and language teaching and learning: A background |
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2.1 Language corpora in language pedagogy: The 90's debate |
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2.1.1 Critical viewpoints |
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2.1.2 The contribution of corpus analysis to language pedagogy |
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2.2 Corpus analysis as a tool for language teachers |
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2.2.1 Corpus analysis and syllabus design |
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2.2.2 Supporting teachers' explanations |
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2.3 Corpus analysis as a tool for language learners |
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2.3.1 The Data-Driven Learning approach |
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2.3.2 Question I: Should the teacher guide the learners? |
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2.3.3 Question 2: Learners or researchers? |
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2.3.4 Question 3: Is the result worth the effort? |
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CHAPTER 3 Theoretical premises for teachers and learners |
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3.1 Learners looking at concordance data: What do they see? |
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3.2 Language as idiom vs. language as a logical system |
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3.3 The contribution of corpus work to a "new" idea of language compositionality |
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3.3.1 The open-choice principle and the idiom principle |
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3.3.2 The search for units of meaning |
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3.3.3 "Unusuality" and creativity |
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3.4 Learners, "idioms" and corpus work |
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CHAPTER 4 Corpus work, ESP and language learners |
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4.0 Introduction: From small to specialized corpora |
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4.1 ESP and specialised corpora: A happy marriage |
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4.1.1 ESP, quantitative data and corpus analysis: A natural development |
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4.1.2 ESP and corpus work |
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4.2 Specialised language and specialized teaching purposes |
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4.3 The continuum between specialized and general corpora |
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4.3.1 Register variation across genres |
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4.3.2 Identifying specificity |
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4.4 Specialized language corpora and language learning |
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CHAPTER 5 Guiding the learners to work with corpora and corpus data |
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5.1 Type of material: Samples vs. examples |
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5.1.1 Task 1: Looking at the concordance lines as samples |
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5.2 "What to look for" in a concordance: Recurrence and typicality |
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5.2.1 Task 2: Focusing the students' attention on recurrent patterns |
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5.3 Correlating output data and corpus texts |
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5.3.1 Task 3: Corpus data and corpus content |
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5.3.2 Follow-up of Task 3: Leading students to create corpora |
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CHAPTER 6 Learners exploring corpora to observe and produce texts: Spies in action |
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6.1 Corpora and ESP learners: "Spies" |
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6.2 Using a small corpus of specialized texts to discover technical concepts |
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6.2.1 A medical word: The case of the acronym "RIBA" |
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6.2.2 A word from economics: The case of "bid" |
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6.3 From a single corpus to more corpora: Comparing data |
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6.3.1 How specialized is a specialized word? The case of the word "disorder" |
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6.3.2 Exploring corpora in different languages: Contrasting English and Italian data |
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6.4 Interacting with "the authorities": Completing or contrasting explanations from reference materials and the teacher |
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6.4.1 The case of the progressive tense in medical research articles |
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6.5 Exploring corpora to produce texts |
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6.5.1 Translating a medical abstract |
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6.5.2 Writing out a political speech |
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6.6 Conclusion: From spies to "double- agents"? |
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CHAPTER 7 Concluding remarks |
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7.1.1 If learners are to behave as data analysts, what should be the role of the teacher? |
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7.1.2 Learners or researchers? |
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7.1.3 Is the effort a worthwhile one? |
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7.2 Corpus work and pedagogy: Old or new questions? |
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7.3.1 Tools and teaching/ materials |
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7.3.2 Corpus-based dictionaries and learners |
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7.3.3 Corpus work and teaching/learning skills |
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7.3.5 Understanding "deviance" |
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7.3.6 Recurrence, deviance and language awareness |
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APPENDIX 1 |
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APPENDIX 2 |
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APPENDIX 3 |
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APPENDIX 4 |
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APPENDIX 5 |
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References |
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Index |
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