Learning English grammar with a corpus: Experimenting with concordancing in a university grammar course

ReCALL

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 329-350

  Vannestål, Maria Estling ^a   Lindquist, Hans ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

action research; classroom research; corpus; exploratory learning; grammar; higher education; peer teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849130405     PISSN: 09583440     EISSN: 14740109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0958344007000638     Document Type: Article

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