Applying corpus linguistics to pedagogy a critical evaluation

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 393-417

  Flowerdew, Lynne ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Data driven learning; Decontextualisation; Inductive; Pedagogic processing; Top down

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349820828     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.14.3.05flo     Document Type: Article

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