Corpus-based Approaches to Issues in Applied Linguistics

Biber, Douglas; Conrad, Susan; Reppen, Randi

doi:10.1093/applin/15.2.169

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“…As Biber, Conrad and Reppen (1994) have suggested, "corpus-based research sheds new light on some of our most basic assumptions about English grammar, and as a result it offers the possibility of more effective and appropriate pedagogical applications. "…”

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Textbook Representation of Prepositions

Mukundan¹,

Roslim²

2009

ELT

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This article presents a corpus-based investigation on English prepositions which are presented in three English language textbooks used by lower secondary schools in Malaysia. The aims were to find out the distributions of prepositions, its frequency order in comparison with the British National Corpus (BNC) and the differences in terms of their co-occurrence with other parts of speech. The findings showed that there is a difference between the textbook corpus and the BNC in terms of the frequency order of certain prepositions and there are similarities and differences in terms of their co-occurrence with other parts of speech. This study indicates the textbook corpus is essential in the study of prepositions and the results can guide teachers in deciding how best to supplement the text with activities that will give learners exposure to target grammar item that is not sufficiently presented in the textbook.

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Textbook Representation of Prepositions

Mukundan¹,

Roslim²

2009

ELT

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“…They asked neurology outpatients a range of variants of the question 'If you had blackouts, your tests were normal and the doctor said you had pseudoseizures, would that be suggesting that you were putting it on?' In contrast, our study takes a corpus-based approach (Biber et al 1994), relying solely on the analysis of actual doctor-patient interactions. This methodology allows us to assess patients' preferences directly: that is, we can gain insight into patients' actual preferred use of diagnostic labels, rather than their reported preference in hypothetical scenarios.…”

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Seizure, Fit or Attack? The Use of Diagnostic Labels by Patients with Epileptic or Non-epileptic Seizures

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Sharrack

Reuber

2009

Applied Linguistics

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We present an analysis of the use of diagnostic labels such as seizure, attack, fit and blackout by patients who experience seizures. While previous research on patients' preferences for diagnostic terminology has relied on questionnaires, we assess patients' own preferences and their responses to a doctor's use of different labels through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of doctor-patient interactions in a realistic clinical setting. We also examine whether two subgroups of patients -those with epileptic seizures and those with (psychogenic) nonepileptic seizures -show different behaviours in this respect. Our findings suggest firstly that patients make fine lexical distinctions between the various diagnostic labels they use to describe their seizure experiences; secondly, that patients play an active role in the development and application of labels for their medical complaint; and thirdly, that attention to patients' lexical choices and interactive use or avoidance of labels can be relevant for the differential diagnosis of seizures.

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“…It can be discussed that a large number of learners tend to master certain patterns and lexical combination at the stake of leaving others under-developed or ignored. In writing, in particular, though structures and tenses render themselves more readily to mastery by non-native learners, genuine patterns may remain painfully far-fetched (Biber & Conrad, 2016).…”

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A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Malaysian ESL Learners and Native English Speakers in Compliment Patterns

Paramasivam¹,

Farashaiyan²

2017

IJL

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Even though many language learners are concerned with to master target proficiency, owing to years of meticulous studies, immersion in TL environments, access to multimedia and educational amenities, in addition to availability of affluent sources or merely thanks to Godgiven language talents, many will seldom take off from conspicuous learner-language and might never produce authentic language either in speech or in writing. In recent years, however, with corpus linguistics gaining currency in academia, a new light has begun to glimmer at the end of the tunnel that corpus-based materials and data-driven language instructions can actively and consciously engage learners and acquaint them with what authentic language is rather than what the text books prescribe it to be. Already, a growing body of research has been dedicated to data-driven learning across the world to survey the effectiveness of incorporating corpora in ELT. As such, the purpose of this research is to investigate the patterns of compliments in writings of the Malay ESL students and compare the findings with native English speakers. The results showed that the Malay ESL learners used a rather different number of syntactic patterns compared to the English native speakers International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2017 www.macrothink.org/ijl 233 and their frequency of patterns outgrew those of the natives.

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Corpus-based Approaches to Issues in Applied Linguistics

Cited by 96 publications

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Textbook Representation of Prepositions

Textbook Representation of Prepositions

Seizure, Fit or Attack? The Use of Diagnostic Labels by Patients with Epileptic or Non-epileptic Seizures

A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Malaysian ESL Learners and Native English Speakers in Compliment Patterns

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