The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning

The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning provides a wide-ranging and authoritative overview of the latest developments and innovations in how corpus approaches, corpus technologies, and corpus data can inform and transform English language teaching and learning.

Featuring a broad range of international experts, the Handbook presents state-of-the-art scholarship and inspires new avenues for research focusing on six key areas:

• English language teaching and learning informed by language corpora;
• corpora in syllabus and materials design;
• corpora and English for specific and academic purposes;
• learner corpora for English language teaching;
• data-driven learning; and
• corpora and corpus tools for language teaching.

Unique to this pioneering volume, the authors cover key areas at the cross-roads of corpus research and English language teaching by drawing on cutting-edge corpus applications, methods, and pedagogical approaches, hence, bridging the research-practice gap in the field.

This Handbook is a collection of novel contributions offering essential reading for those researching and studying English language teaching and learning through the application of corpus approaches.

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of corpora and corpus tools

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 A historical overview of using corpora in English language teaching

Jiajin Xu

2 Corpora and Second Language Acquisition

3 Corpora in the teaching of vocabulary and phraseology

4 Corpus analysis of grammar-in-discourse for English language teaching

5 Corpora in instructed second language pragmatics

6 Corpora and speaking skills

7 Corpora for teaching social conversation

8 Corpora for teaching culture and intercultural communication

9 Corpora for materials design

10 Corpora for English language learning textbook evaluation

11 English as a Lingua Franca corpora and English language teaching

12 Corpus analysis of disciplinary variation and the teaching of ESP/EAP

13 Corpora for teaching and learning vocabulary in ESP

14 Corpora for teaching collocations in ESP

15 Lexical bundles in EAP

16 Corpora for EAP writing

17 Corpora and EAP listening comprehension

Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

18 Corpora and feedback in EAP

19 Written learner corpora to inform teaching

Gaëtanelle Gilquin

20 Spoken learner corpora for language teaching

21 Learner corpora to inform testing and assessment

22 DDL pedagogy, participants, and perspectives

23 Revamping DDL: Affordances of digital technology

24 Multimodal corpora and concordancing in DDL

25 DDL for younger learners

26 How learners use corpora

27 Corpora and autonomous language learning

Maggie Charles

28 DDL for English language teaching in perspective

29 Evaluating corpus analysis tools for the classroom

30 Building corpora for ELT

31 Parallel corpora in ELT

32 Automated syntactic analysis for ELT

33 Training teachers and learners to use corpora

Index