Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching

This edited volume aims to demystify corpus linguistics for English language teaching (ELT) and advocates its inclusion in the classroom. It provides a basic introduction to corpus linguistics, reviews its use in ELT, and discusses the attitudes of trainee teachers towards its implementation. The book also showcases how corpus linguists can benefit classroom teacher preparation, materials development, and textbook writing.

Format: Hardback
Length: 301 pages
Publication date: 04 March 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

The aim of this edited volume is to demystify corpus linguistics for use in English language teaching (ELT). It advocates the inclusion of corpus linguistics in the classroom as part of an approach to ELT in which students engage with naturally occurring language. The first chapter provides a comprehensive but essential introduction to corpus linguistics, including sections on corpora and corpus methods, and this is followed by a review of the use of corpus linguistics in ELT. Chapters on the traditional ELT strands of skills, vocabulary, and grammar, as well as chapters on pluricentric approaches (on language and culture, World Englishes, and English as a Lingua Franca), flow naturally from the second chapter, which reports on a survey of the attitudes of trainee teachers to the use of corpus linguistics in the ELT classroom. The final two chapters show how the work of corpus linguists can benefit classroom teacher preparation, materials development, and textbook writing. This book will be of interest not only to academics in fields such as English Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics, and Corpus Linguistics, but also to educators of teacher-trainees and teacher-trainees themselves, as well as teachers who are looking for new interactive approaches to ELT.

Weight: 530g
Dimension: 216 x 154 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031112195
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023