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1 Class 3 Corpora in language teaching

2 Trends in FLT  Communicative Language Teaching  Trends within CLT authentic language contextualised language focus on form learner independence/autonomy language awareness

3 Corpora in FLT  application 1 - a tool for teachers  application 2 - a tool for learners unfulfilled promise?

4 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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7 OALD 1974

8 OALD http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.c om/dictionary/force

9 LDCE 2003

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11 The Academic Wordlist http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.c om/academic/

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15 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

16 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

17 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

18 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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