Corpus Research Applications in Second Language Teaching

Römer, Ute

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“…This chapter has illustrated the technique of using evidence from corpora to discover differences between the learners' own language and the language to be learnt, as well as discrepancies between the learners' interlanguage and the target language. The technique can be used as a tool for "facilitating noticing" (R. Ellis 2012, 281) and enhancing crosslinguistic awareness and metacognition among advanced language students as well as language teachers, who can pass on this knowledge to their students (see Römer 2011). The student responses indicate that such a technique may indeed work.…”

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Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching

Haukås¹,

Bjørke²,

Dypedahl³

2018

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This volume offers an exhaustive look at the latest research on metacognition in language learning and teaching. While other works have explored certain notions of metacognition in language learning and teaching, this book, divided into theoretical and empirical chapters, looks at metacognition from a variety of perspectives, including metalinguistic and multilingual awareness and language learning and teaching in L2 and L3 settings, and explores a range of studies from around the world. This allows the volume to highlight a diverse set of methodological approaches, including blogging, screen recording software, automatic translation programs, language corpora, classroom interventions and interviews and, subsequently, to demonstrate the value of metacognition research and how insights from such findings can contribute to a greater understanding of language learning and language teaching processes more generally. This innovative collection is an essential resource for students and scholars in language teaching pedagogy and applied linguistics.

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Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching

Haukås¹,

Bjørke²,

Dypedahl³

2018

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“…In EFL pedagogy, corpora have been used both directly and indirectly (Römer, 2011). Rather than consulting to corpora indirectly such as developing curriculum and materials and obtaining authentic material, this study made use of DDL directly.…”

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“…In terms of the methodology of the use of the corpus examples in language learning and teaching, DDL method was introduced by Johns (1990). In this aspect, pedagogical corpus applications are categorized into two: direct and indirect applications (Leech, 1997;Römer, 2011). Indirect applications of corpus include mainly the researchers and material writers, by focusing on the effects of the corpus on the teaching syllabus and reference works and teaching materials.…”

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Lexical Awareness and Development through Data Driven Learning: Attitudes and Beliefs of EFL Learners

Aşık

Vural

Akpınar

2015

Journal of Education and Training Studies

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Data-driven learning (DDL) has become an innovative approach developed from corpus linguistics. It plays a significant role in the progression of foreign language pedagogy, since it offers learners plentiful authentic corpora examples that make them analyze language rules with the help of online corpora and concordancers. The present study attempts to reveal Turkish EFL learners' attitudes and beliefs about DDL instruction in terms of lexical awareness and development. A mixed method including a questionnaire and a focus group interview was used to gather data. The statistical analysis of the results indicated positive attitudes towards DDL instruction in terms of raising the depth of lexical awareness particularly for synonyms and collocations. However, participants reported that their awareness towards word frequency, idioms and vocabulary learning strategies did not increase satisfactorily. Negative attitudes were also observed due to technical problems of the software and time-consuming nature of doing tasks through corpus.

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“…After that, many suggestions emerged about the creative use of corpora in language classrooms such as the creation of exercises that are directly extracted and driven from corpus tools. According to Römer (2011), the implementation of corpus tools and methods in L2 teaching can be classified to direct and indirect application. Indirect application of corpora means the instances in which corpora can provide information on "what to teach and how to teach it" (Römer, 2011, p. 206).…”

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The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

Almutairi¹

2016

ELT

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Using corpora in language teaching has revolutionized language research with its 'authentic' appeal. Corpus tools have enabled linguistic researchers and teachers to investigate actual usages and the characteristics of certain genres in order to improve syllabus design and infer more effective classroom exercises. From this perspective, this paper attempts to use corpus tools to investigate the characteristics of one of the most important requirements of university programs admissions which is the personal statement. Despite the immense importance of writing a personal statement in the lives of students wanting to enroll in universities, little research has been conducted on its instructions. More importantly, teaching its features to university students has been neglected although personal statements are an essential genre that should be emphasized in academic writing classes or university preparation courses. The paper aims to investigate if compiling a corpus of personal statements can lead to creating an effective corpus-based activities to be taught in teaching writing a personal statement. Then the paper attempts to evaluate the pedagogical implications of using corpus-based activities and criticized the weaknesses and strengths of corpora as a resource in language teaching. This paper chose to focus on personal statements collected from law students due to the high demand on law colleges in Saudi Arabia and the difficulty of admission requirements. This study used Sketch Engine® to complie a corpus of sixty-seven personal statement with a total word count of 50, 691, then analysed the lexio-grammatical features. The results were used to create corpus-based excersises to be taught in writing courses teaching personal statements.

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Corpus Research Applications in Second Language Teaching

Cited by 160 publications

References 74 publications

Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching

Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching

Lexical Awareness and Development through Data Driven Learning: Attitudes and Beliefs of EFL Learners

The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

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