ABSTRACT
Teaching English with Corpora is an accessible and practical introduction to the ways in which online and offline corpora can be used in English language teaching (ELT).
Featuring 70 chapters written by an international range of researchers and practitioners, this book:
• provides readers with clear, tested examples of corpus-based/driven lesson plans;
• contains activities relevant to English for general purposes and English for specific purposes;
• caters for the needs of English language teachers working with learners at different proficiency levels;
• features flexible teaching suggestions that can be explored as part of a lesson or as a full lesson.
This book is an essential purchase for pre- and in-service English language teachers as well as those studying corpus linguistics in undergraduate/Master’s courses in applied linguistics, ELT and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |30 pages
Introduction
part A|184 pages
English for general purposes
chapter 6|3 pages
If you speak English, take one step forward
chapter 11|4 pages
Talking about the weather
chapter 26|3 pages
I was able to learn a new point
chapter 28|5 pages
Investigating adverbials in British English
chapter 30|5 pages
Gender equality in the TESOL classroom
chapter 38|5 pages
Thanking and responding to thanks in American English
chapter 40|12 pages
Register variation in newspapers
part B|142 pages
English for specific purposes
