A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners by Robert Poole (English)

Description: A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners by Robert Poole This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning.It provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom, this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning.It guides you through the application of corpus searches for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen your development into an autonomous language learner and help instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided language learning. Back Cover Unlock the potential of corpus linguistics for language learningThis textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom, this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning.It guides you through the application of corpus searches for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen your development into an autonomous language learner and help instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided language learning.Key Features:* Think About It boxes include reflective activities* Your Turn boxes contain hands-on activities* Screenshots guide the reader through the learning and discovery experience* References a variety of popular corpora including COCA, BNC and GloWbE* Includes a directory of online resources and a short glossary of key terms Flap Unlock the potential of corpus linguistics for language learningThis textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom, this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning.It guides you through the application of corpus searches for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen your development into an autonomous language learner and help instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided language learning.Key Features:* Think About It boxes include reflective activities* Your Turn boxes contain hands-on activities* Screenshots guide the reader through the learning and discovery experience* References a variety of popular corpora including COCA, BNC and GloWbE* Includes a directory of online resources and a short glossary of key terms Author Biography Robert Poole is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Alabama. He has taught English in Nicaragua and South Korea as well as several language institutes in the US. His research focuses on corpus-aided approaches to language teaching and learning and corpus-aided discourse analysis. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Learning the Essentials Chapter 2: Corpus Searches for Vocabulary Learning Chapter 3: Corpus Searches for Writing Chapter 4: Corpus Searches for Cultural Study and Conversation Topics Chapter 5: Building Your Own Corpus Corpus Resources; Additional Readings; Glossary Review A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners is a great resource for students and teachers interested in using corpora for language learning. This handy guide is filled with interesting activities, clear examples and detailed instructions, including step by step screen shots for activities using online corpora.--Professor Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona UniversityThis is an exciting book about how to use a corpus of English. It carefully brings the reader through the steps of using the COCA interface, through which many corpora can be freely accessed online so once you have the book, you are ready to begin. You do not need any prior knowledge of corpora to read or use this book but by the end of it, you will feel empowered to use corpora as a language learning tool as well as a resource for the investigation of language. It has a store of tasks that will engage the reader and it offers opportunities for reflection and practice throughout. Robert Poole, the author of this book, has really done a great job and it is clear that he has such a passion for using corpora in his teaching. I think book will really bridge the gap between corpora and the classroom.--Dr Anne OKeeffe, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick Review Quote This is an exciting book about how to use a corpus of English. It carefully brings the reader through the steps of using the COCA interface, through which many corpora can be freely accessed online so once you have the book, you are ready to begin. You do not need any prior knowledge of corpora to read or use this book but by the end of it, you will feel empowered to use corpora as a language learning tool as well as a resource for the investigation of language. It has a store of tasks that will engage the reader and it offers opportunities for reflection and practice throughout. Robert Poole, the author of this book, has really done a great job and it is clear that he has such a passion for using corpora in his teaching. I think book will really bridge the gap between corpora and the classroom. Promotional "Headline" Unlock the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning Description for Reader Unlock the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom, this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning.It guides you through the application of corpus searches for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen your development into an autonomous language learner and help instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided language learning. Think About Itboxes include reflective activities Your Turnboxes contain hands-on activities Screenshots guide the reader through the learning and discovery experience References a variety of popular corpora including COCA, BNC and GloWbE Includes a directory of online resources and a short glossary of key terms Paperback and ebook editions are full colour throughout Description for Sales People This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom, this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language learning. It guides you through the application of corpus searches for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen your development into an autonomous language learner and help instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided language learning. Key Features: * Think About It boxes include reflective activities * Your Turn boxes contain hands-on activities * Screenshots guide the reader through the learning and discovery experience * References a variety of popular corpora including COCA, BNC and GloWbE * Includes a directory of online resources and a short glossary of key terms Description for Teachers/Educators Intended for use on high-intermediate/advanced language learning programs in Intensive English institutes, on EAP courses, for example in first year composition courses for L2 writers, as well as MA TESOL and MA Applied Linguistics modules. Some examples include: Indiana University, Department of Second Language Studies, Intensive English Program The Intensive English Program is designed to serve learners of English by offering courses designed to support development of English language skills for academic studies. As part of the Department of Second Language Studies, the IEP also contributes to the development of ESL professionals, encourages curricular innovation, and supports the research mission of the department. In these ways the IEP contributes to the broader mission of Indiana University in fostering a community of global citizens. Indiana University, Department of Second Language Studies, English LanguageImprovement Program, T502 Course: Communication Skills for International AIs This course is designed for international graduate students who need to be effective teachers in the U.S. university classroom. This course addresses the pronunciation, communication, delivery, and cultural issues international graduate students may confront as associate instructors at Indiana University. Linda Able (Language Coordinator) Michigan State University, English for Academic Purposes ESL 221: English Composition? for Non-Native Speakers of English The goal of the ESL 221 English Composition course is to help students write coherent, unified, thesis driven multi-paragraph essays of increasing complexity and analysis and to develop self-monitoring and editing skills as needed. University of Reading, MA Applied Linguistics LS3CBL-Corpus-based approaches to language description The module introduces students to the key concepts and tools of Corpus Linguistics and aims to provide them with a basic training in uses of specialist software programmes for the analysis of language use in linguistic corpora. It also demonstrates how corpus tools and methods can be used to study a variety of linguistic features, registers and genres. Applications of Corpus Linguistics to selected areas in Sociolinguistics, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, and Language Teaching and Learning will be demonstrated. Dr Sylvia Jaworska City University of Hong Kong EN6506-Corpus Approaches to Language Studies This course aims to provide participants with an understanding of the theories, concepts and skills needed to develop, analyse, and use electronic text collections (corpora) of English. It thus offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on the topic, beginning with a brief introduction to the history of language corpora, then quickly moving on to identifying some of the basic practical skills needed to create and use corpora, all through hands-on computer practice. Details ISBN1474427170 Publisher Edinburgh University Press ISBN-10 1474427170 ISBN-13 9781474427173 Format Paperback Author Robert Poole Pages 224 Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-12-31 Language English UK Release Date 2018-12-31 Edition 50th Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2018-12-31 Edited by Johanna Spanke Birth 1954 Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Edition Description 50,000-55,000 ed. DEWEY 410.188 Audience General AU Release Date 2019-04-04 Alternative 9781474427166 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133508819;

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