Using google as a super corpus to drive written language learning: A comparison with the british national corpus

Computer Assisted Language Learning

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 377-393

  Sha, Guoquan ^a  

^a Sichuan Economic Management College   (China)

Author keywords

BNC; Corpus; Data driven learning; Google; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449281272     PISSN: 09588221     EISSN: 17443210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2010.514576     Document Type: Article

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