How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching

1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction (by Sinclair, John McH.); 3. The corpus and the teacher; 4. In the classroom; 5. In the classroom: Corpora in the classroom: An overview and some reflections on future developments (by Bernardini, Silvia); 6. In preparation: What teachers have always wanted to know - and how corpora can help (by Tsui, Amy B.M.); 7. Resources - Corpora; 8. Corpus variety: Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teaching (by Conrad, Susan); 9. Spoken - general: Spoken corpus for an ordinary learner (by Mauranen, Anna); 10. Spoken - an example: The use of concordancing in the teaching of Portuguese (by Pereira, Luisa Alice Santos); 11. Learner corpora: Learner corpora and their potential for language teaching (by Nesselhauf, Nadja); 12. Research; 13. Composition: The use of adverbial connectors in Hungarian university students' argumentative essays (by Tanko, Gyula); 14. Textbooks: A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics (by Romer, Ute); 15. Resources - Computing; 16. Basic processing: Software for corpus access and analysis (by Barlow, Michael); 17. Programming: Simple Perl programming for corpus work (by Danielsson, Pernilla); 18. Network: Learner oral corpora and network - based language teaching: Scope and foundations (by Perez-Paredes, Pascual); 19. Prospects; 20. New evidence, new priorities, new attitudes (by Sinclair, John McH.); 21. Notes on contributors; 22. Index