The importance of corpus-based research for language teachers

System

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Conrad, S M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer applications; Computerized text analysis; Corpus linguistics; English adverbials; Grammatical analysis; Language use; Registers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347802039     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0346-251X(98)00046-3     Document Type: Article

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