Corpora in Language Teaching

The Handbook of Language Teaching

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 327-350

  Flowerdew, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applications of corpus linguistics to language teaching; British National Corpus (BNC) and Bank of English (COBUILD at Birmingham University, UK); Corpora in language teaching; Corpus linguistics in language teaching direct or indirect; Corpus techniques and lexis, grammar, semantics, pragmatics, and textual feature patterns; Corpus techniques and new knowledge of behaviour of lexis, grammar, semantics; Corpus based approaches in language teaching and languages for specific purposes (LSP); English for academic purposes (EAP); Keyword in context (KWIC) concordances; LSP (English for specific purposes (ESP)) and corpora in language teaching

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EID: 84890973665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444315783.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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