Corpora and Language Teaching; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I. Corpora and second-language acquisition; The contribution of learner corpora to second language acquisition and foreign language teaching; Some thoughts on corpora and second-language acquisition; Part II. The direct corpus approach; Who benefits from learning how to use corpora?; Oslo Interactive English; Corpus research and practice; Part III. The indirect corpus approach; Themes in Swedish advanced learners' writing in English
Summary
The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the different perspectives of foreign language teachers and applied linguists can be reconciled. A number of concrete examples are given of how authentic corpus material can be used for different learning activities in the classroom. It is also shown how specific learner problems for example in the area of ph
