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Class 3 Corpora in language teaching
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Trends in FLT Communicative Language Teaching Trends within CLT authentic language contextualised language focus on form learner independence/autonomy language awareness
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Corpora in FLT application 1 - a tool for teachers application 2 - a tool for learners unfulfilled promise?
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Application 1 More accurate description of language frequency meaning phraseology, etc. Identifying problematic areas (learner corpora) Syllabus design (especially ESP courses) Production of teaching materials authentic examples learners’ dictionaries
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OALD 1974
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OALD http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.c om/dictionary/force
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LDCE 2003
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The Academic Wordlist http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.c om/academic/
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Application 2 Data-driven learning (Tim Johns, University of Birmingham) students consult a corpus discovery learning increases motivation and interest the results are more lasting
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DDL Option 1 the teacher sets the task and asks students to consult pre-selected citations unedited concordance lines the teacher is more in control and knows what students will find
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Option 1 Presentation stage looking for examples for a particular word/phrase/structure in a corpus studying concordance lines to look for different meanings, collocations, colligations or translations (in the case of parallel corpora) Practice stage finding missing words in concordance lines
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DDL Option 2 the student (together with the teacher) looks for an answer to a particular problem that has arisen from the student’s language use more open-ended and unpredictable Tim Johns’ Kibbitzers http://lexically.net/TimJohns/index.html http://lexically.net/TimJohns/index.html MICASE Kibbitzers http://micase.elicorpora.info/researchers/micase -kibbitzers http://micase.elicorpora.info/researchers/micase -kibbitzers
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