From corpus to classroom : language use and language teaching / Anne O'Keeffe, Michael McCarthy & Ronald Carter.

Call Number	428.0071
Author	O'Keeffe, Anne, author.
Title	From corpus to classroom : language use and language teaching / Anne O'Keeffe, Michael McCarthy & Ronald Carter.
Physical Description	1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction -- Establishing basic and advanced levels in vocabulary training -- Lessons from the analysis of chunks -- Idioms in everyday use and in language teaching -- Grammar and lexis and patterns -- Grammar, discourse and pragmatics -- Listenership and response -- Relational language -- Language and creativity : creating relationships -- Specialising : academic and business corpora -- Exploring teacher corpora.
Summary	From Corpus to Classroom summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing particularly on spoken data. It is based on analysis of corpora such as CANCODE and Cambridge International Corpus, and written with particular reference to the development of corpus-informed pedagogy. The book explains how corpora can be designed and used, and focuses on what they tell us about language teaching. It examines the relevance of corpora to materials writers, course designers and language teachers and considers the needs of the learner in relation to authentic data. It shows how the answers to key questions such as 'Is there a basic, everyday vocabulary for English?', 'How should idioms be taught?' and 'What are the most common spoken language chunks?' are best explored by means of a clearer understanding of the workings of language in context.
Added Author	McCarthy, Michael, 1947- author. Carter, Ronald, 1947- author.
Subject	English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers. English language Spoken English Study and teaching. English language Usage Study and teaching. Corpora (Linguistics)
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497650

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Summary	From Corpus to Classroom summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing particularly on spoken data. It is based on analysis of corpora such as CANCODE and Cambridge International Corpus, and written with particular reference to the development of corpus-informed pedagogy. The book explains how corpora can be designed and used, and focuses on what they tell us about language teaching. It examines the relevance of corpora to materials writers, course designers and language teachers and considers the needs of the learner in relation to authentic data. It shows how the answers to key questions such as 'Is there a basic, everyday vocabulary for English?', 'How should idioms be taught?' and 'What are the most common spoken language chunks?' are best explored by means of a clearer understanding of the workings of language in context.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction -- Establishing basic and advanced levels in vocabulary training -- Lessons from the analysis of chunks -- Idioms in everyday use and in language teaching -- Grammar and lexis and patterns -- Grammar, discourse and pragmatics -- Listenership and response -- Relational language -- Language and creativity : creating relationships -- Specialising : academic and business corpora -- Exploring teacher corpora.
Subject	English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers. English language Spoken English Study and teaching. English language Usage Study and teaching. Corpora (Linguistics)
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497650