“GRIMMATIK:” German Grammar through the Magic of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales and the Online Grimm Corpus

Zinggeler, Margrit Verena

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“…An overwhelming majority of pedagogical suggestions involve searching corpora for specific lexical items, i.e., words, and exploring their use in context (see Dodd, 1997; Möllering, 2004, as examples for German). A notable exception is Zinggeler's (2006) Grimmatik: a pedagogical grammar with exercises based entirely on Grimms’ fairy tales contained in the COSMAS corpus. Admittedly, searching for more abstract categories, such as “present perfect tense constructions,” requires morpho‐syntactically annotated corpora and more sophisticated search rules.…”

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Discovery Learning and Teaching with Electronic Corpora in an Advanced German Grammar Course

Vyatkina

2013

Die Unterrichtspraxis

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This study describes the design and implementation of a usage‐based and corpus‐based advanced German grammar course. Teaching materials for the course included DWDS, or Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache: a large, representative, free and publicly available corpus of contemporary German texts. The article outlines specific theoretically informed principles for course design and presents a logical progression of corpus‐based grammar‐teaching activities as used in this course. It also reports participants’ post‐course reactions which were very positive. The article contains practical recommendations for educators interested in trying out corpus‐based activities for teaching German grammar at different proficiency levels as well as to different participant groups. Furthermore, it promotes a more holistic perspective toward grammar as a meaning‐making resource compatible with innovative approaches to grammar pedagogy.

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Section: Current Applications Of Corpora In Language Pedagogymentioning

confidence: 99%

Discovery Learning and Teaching with Electronic Corpora in an Advanced German Grammar Course

Vyatkina

2013

Die Unterrichtspraxis

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“The sisters did her every imaginable injury”: Power and violence in «Cinderella»

Díaz¹

2012

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The main aim of this article is to discuss the results achieved after investigating the presence of violence in the Grimm brothers’ <em>Cinderella</em> with the intention of finding out what kind of processes predominate in this tale and whether they can be related to violent actions. The analysis involved firstly, a study of the frequency and concordances of some words belonging to the semantic field ‘violence’, surveying in detail the context in which they appear and secondly, the analysis of transitivity processes. The method proved to be a good strategy to check whether each character’s identity and social position (power) were somehow related to the infliction of violence within this context. As a general conclusion drawn from the analysis of the results, a tentative proposal could be formulated: a corpus-based analysis in conjunction with both, a transitivity analysis and a Critical Discourse Analysis could empirically detect the presence of controversial topics such as violence in different types of texts.

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“GRIMMATIK:” German Grammar through the Magic of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales and the Online Grimm Corpus

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Discovery Learning and Teaching with Electronic Corpora in an Advanced German Grammar Course

Discovery Learning and Teaching with Electronic Corpora in an Advanced German Grammar Course

“The sisters did her every imaginable injury”: Power and violence in «Cinderella»

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