The Potential Impact of EFL Textbook Language on Learner English: A Triangulated Corpus Study

Foll, Elen Le

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“…Recently, two new resource books featuring fully-fledged DDL lessons developed by students and practising teachers have been published online in open access (le Foll, 2021;Pinto et al, 2023). Their advantages include not only free and easily accessible content but also multimodality and the absence of space limitations associated with printed resources.…”

Section: Corpus Resources For Language Teacher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corpora in English Language Teacher Education: Research, Integration, and Resources

Farr,

Leńko‐Szymańska

2023

TESOL Quarterly

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For some time, arguments have been made that for the increased successful use of corpus linguistics (CL), in the form of Data‐Driven Learning (DDL; Johns, 1991) in the second language classroom, teacher education programs must play a central role by providing the necessary instruction and triggers. Three means of integrating corpora into teacher education have been identified (Leńko‐Szymańska, 2022): as a tool for language awareness, as pedagogically‐focussed instruction for DDL, and as a fully‐fledged CL course. It is difficult to gauge the effectiveness of these three approaches because we can only rely on the relatively few, but growing, number of research studies that are published. Naturally, the existing studies are based on relatively small numbers of participants, rely mainly on data collected through questionnaires and self‐reports, and rarely trace the extended effects of the instruction after the student teachers leave the programs. It is also hard to generalize from these accounts as they are deeply imbedded in their institutional curricula and their local teacher education traditions. Nonetheless, they provide a foundation for the discussion in this paper which proposes a tripartite framework for the integration of instructional CL into language teacher education programs. This consists of corpus literacies, corpus‐based language pedagogy, and corpus‐based reflective practice. In addition, we present a summary of some useful published resources that can be used to support the integration of such a framework.

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Section: Corpus Resources For Language Teacher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corpora in English Language Teacher Education: Research, Integration, and Resources

Farr,

Leńko‐Szymańska

2023

TESOL Quarterly

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Le Foll

2024

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine linguistic variation both within textbooks and compared to corpora representing ‘real-life’ English as used outside the EFL classroom. The results highlight the characteristics of Textbook English that define it as a distinct variety of English. In light of the study's pedagogical implications, this book proposes a range of corpus-based approaches to improve the naturalness of textbook texts. It also contributes to advancing quantitative corpus linguistics methodology: its detailed online supplements aim for methodological transparency and reproducibility in line with the principles of Open Science. This book will be of interest to linguistics and language education students and researchers, as well as EFL teachers, textbook authors and editors, and those involved in curriculum development and teacher training.

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The Potential Impact of EFL Textbook Language on Learner English: A Triangulated Corpus Study

Cited by 3 publications

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Corpora in English Language Teacher Education: Research, Integration, and Resources

Corpora in English Language Teacher Education: Research, Integration, and Resources

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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