Fostering corpus literacy and corpus pedagogical competence is not an easy task. Here, we Suggest a modular concept tackling both.
Introducing
Corpora to
(Prospective)
Teachers
This module is all about introducing corpus linguistics, its basic terminology and research interests. Students develop a basic understanding for the need and use of corpus linguistics. They learn how to work with corpus terminology and the basic features of english-corpora.org as well as other websites.
MATERIAL
Corpus terminology handout
PowerPoint draft
Potential Reading
Evans, David (2006). Unit 1: Introduction. Corpus building and investigation for the Humanities: An online information pack about corpus investigation techniques for the Humanities, Nottingham.
Weisser, Martin (2015). What’s Out There? A General Introduction to Corpora. Practical Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction to Corpus‐Based Language Analysis. Wiley pp.13-28.
Kennedy, Graeme D (1998). Corpus-based descriptions of English. An Introduction To Corpus Linguistics. Longman, pp. 88-121.
Kilgarriff, Adam et al (2015). Corpora and Language Learning with the Sketch Engine and SKELL. Revue française de linguistique appliquée, 1, pp. 61-80. Link:
Nesselhauf, Nadja (2005). Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Introduction.
Asking &
Answering
Questions
with Corpora
Students gain deeper insights into the world of corpus linguistics. They work with advanced tools and start performing complex corpus queries.
Material
Guidesheet with scaffolding ideas
Potential Reading
Bernardini, Silvia and Adriano Ferraresi (2013). Old Needs, New Solutions: Comparable Corpora for Language Professionals. In Serge Sharoff et al. (eds.), Building and Using Comparable Corpora. Springer,pp. 303-309.
Kennedy, Graeme D. (1998). Corpus-based descriptions of English. An Introduction To Corpus Linguistics. Longman, pp. 121-180.
Corpus-based
Activities &
Lessons
The students design activities / lessons based on or including the use of corpora. They discuss ideas, reflect on their progress and think about how they could make use of their newly acquired skills in their future jobs as teachers.
MATERIAL
Guidesheet with scaffolding ideas
Potential Reading
Le Foll, Elen (2021). Creating Corpus-Informed Materials for the English as a Foreign Language Classroom. A Step-by-Step Guide for (Trainee) Teachers Using Online Resources.
Lessard-Clouston, Michael, and Tracey Chang (2014). Corpora and English Language Teaching: Pedagogy and Practical Applications for Data-Driven Learning. TESL Reporter 47, pp. 1-20.
Bennett, Gena (2010). An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Using Corpora in the Language Learning Classroom, Michigan ELT, pp. 1-22.
Learner Corpora
and Diagnostics
Students explore the use of corpora for analysing their learners‘ language use. This entails setting up corpora on their own and using the freely-available software Antconc for corpus exploitation.
MATERIAL
Potential Reading
Anthony, Laurence (2019). AntConc 3.4.0 Tutorial 1: Getting Started.
Anthony, Laurence (2019). AntConc 3.4.0 Tutorial 2: Concordance Tool – Basic Features (HQ).
Anthony, Laurence (2019). AntConc 3.4.0 Tutorial 3: Concordance Tool – Advanced Features.
Anthony, Laurence (2019). AntConc 3.4.0 Tutorial 10: Keyword List Tool.
Bubenhofer, Noah (2021). Mit AntConc arbeiten.
Götz, Sandra (to appear): Analyzing a learner corpus with a concordancer. In: Nicole Tracy-Ventura & Magali Paquot (eds), Routledge Handbook of SLA and Corpora. London/New York: Routledge.
Kennedy, Graeme D. (1998). Corpus-based approaches to language teaching. An Introduction To Corpus Linguistics. Longman.
Paramita, Monica Lestari et al. (2013). Methods for Collection and Evaluation of Comparable Documents. Serge Sharoff et al. (eds.), Building and Using Comparable Corpora. Springer, pp. 93-109.
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