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Using Corpora
How to use corpora in language teaching by John McHardy Sinclair
Google Books
After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the classroom. This book is intensely practical, written mainly by a new generation of language teachers who are acknowledged experts in central aspects of the discipline. It offers advice on what to do in the classroom, how to cope with teachers' queries about language, what corpora to use including learner corpora and spoken corpora and how to handle the variability of language; it reports on some current research and explains how the access software is constructed, including an opportunity for the practitioner to write small but useful programs; and it takes a look into the future of corpora in language teaching.
Google Books
After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the classroom. This book is intensely practical, written mainly by a new generation of language teachers who are acknowledged experts in central aspects of the discipline. It offers advice on what to do in the classroom, how to cope with teachers' queries about language, what corpora to use including learner corpora and spoken corpora and how to handle the variability of language; it reports on some current research and explains how the access software is constructed, including an opportunity for the practitioner to write small but useful programs; and it takes a look into the future of corpora in language teaching.
BAAL Book Prize Contestants
2000
The BAAL BOOK PRIZE 2000 was awarded at the Cambridge Annual Meeting to:
Rachel Sutton-Spence and Bencie Woll
The Linguistics of British Sign Language: An Introduction
Cambridge University Press
The three other shortlisted titles were:
A. Suresh Canagarajah
Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching
Oxford University Press
A. P. Cowie
English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners - a History
Oxford University Press
Alan Davies
An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory
Edinburgh University Press
2001
The BAAL BOOK PRIZE 2001 was awarded at the Reading Annual Meeting to:
Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine
Vanishing Voices: The extinction of the world's languages
Oxford University Press
The three other shortlisted titles were:
Jennifer Jenkins, The Phonology of English as an International Language. Oxford University Press
Penelope Eckert
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice
Blackwell Publishers
Eva Gregory and Ann Williams
City Literacies: Learning to read across generations and cultures
Routledge
2002
The 2002 BAAL Book Prize was awarded to:
Manfred Görlach
A Dictionary of European Anglicisms
Oxford University Press
The three other shortlisted titles were:
Chris Brumfit
Individual Freedom in Language Teaching
Oxford University Press
Stephen May
Language and Minority Rights
Pearson Education
Brian Street (ed.)
Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives
Routledge
2003
The 2003 BAAL Book Prize was awarded to:
Wray, A. (2002)
Formulaic language and the lexicon
Cambridge University Press
The titles shortlisted for the 2003 BAAL Book Prize were:
Cauldwell, R.(2002)
Streaming speech: Speech in Action
Chambers, J.K., Trudgill, P. and Schilling Estes, N. (2002)
The handbook of language variation and change
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Finnegan, R. (2002)
Communicating : the multiple modes of interconnection
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Ltd
2004
The 2004 BAAL book prize was awarded to:
Scollon, Ron & Scollon, Suzie Wong (2003)
Discourses in place: language in the material world
Routledge
The titles short-listed for the 2004 BAAL Book Prize were:
Rogers, Rebecca (2003)
A critical discourse analysis of family literacy practices
Lawrence Erlbaum.
Schjerve, Rosita Rindler (ed.) (2003)
Diglossia & power
Mouton de Gruyter
Schreier, Daniel (2003)
Isolation & language change
Palgrave Macmillan
2005
The 2005 BAAL book prize was awarded to:
Edwards, Viv (2004)
Multilingualism in the English-speaking World
Blackwell
The titles short-listed for the 2005 BAAL Book Prize are:
Bolton, Kingsley (2004)
Chinese Englishes: a sociolinguistic history
Cambridge University Press
Carter, Ronald (2004)
Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk
Routledge
Seedhouse, Paul (2004)
The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom: A Conversation Analysis Perspective
Blackwell
2006
BAAL BOOK PRIZE 2006
Shortlisted books
Keith Brown (ed)
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
(Elsevier)
Kees de Bot and Sinfree Makoni
Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts
(Multilingual Matters)
Mike Hoey
Lexical Priming
(Routledge)
Aneta Pavlenko
Emotions and Multilingualism
(Cambridge University Press)
2007
The 2007 BAAL book prize was awarded to:
Rampton, Ben (2006)
Language in Late Modernity
Cambridge University Press
The titles short-listed for the 2007 BAAL Book Prize are:
Benwell, Bethan & Elizabeth Stokoe (2006)
Discourse and Identity
Edinburgh University Press
Holmes, Janet (2006)
Gendered Talk at Work
Blackwell
Rubdy, Rani and Saraceni, Mario (eds) (2006)
English in the World: global rules, global roles.
Continuum
The BAAL BOOK PRIZE 2000 was awarded at the Cambridge Annual Meeting to:
Rachel Sutton-Spence and Bencie Woll
The Linguistics of British Sign Language: An Introduction
Cambridge University Press
The three other shortlisted titles were:
A. Suresh Canagarajah
Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching
Oxford University Press
A. P. Cowie
English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners - a History
Oxford University Press
Alan Davies
An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory
Edinburgh University Press
2001
The BAAL BOOK PRIZE 2001 was awarded at the Reading Annual Meeting to:
Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine
Vanishing Voices: The extinction of the world's languages
Oxford University Press
The three other shortlisted titles were:
Jennifer Jenkins, The Phonology of English as an International Language. Oxford University Press
Penelope Eckert
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice
Blackwell Publishers
Eva Gregory and Ann Williams
City Literacies: Learning to read across generations and cultures
Routledge
2002
The 2002 BAAL Book Prize was awarded to:
Manfred Görlach
A Dictionary of European Anglicisms
Oxford University Press
The three other shortlisted titles were:
Chris Brumfit
Individual Freedom in Language Teaching
Oxford University Press
Stephen May
Language and Minority Rights
Pearson Education
Brian Street (ed.)
Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives
Routledge
2003
The 2003 BAAL Book Prize was awarded to:
Wray, A. (2002)
Formulaic language and the lexicon
Cambridge University Press
The titles shortlisted for the 2003 BAAL Book Prize were:
Cauldwell, R.(2002)
Streaming speech: Speech in Action
Chambers, J.K., Trudgill, P. and Schilling Estes, N. (2002)
The handbook of language variation and change
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Finnegan, R. (2002)
Communicating : the multiple modes of interconnection
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Ltd
2004
The 2004 BAAL book prize was awarded to:
Scollon, Ron & Scollon, Suzie Wong (2003)
Discourses in place: language in the material world
Routledge
The titles short-listed for the 2004 BAAL Book Prize were:
Rogers, Rebecca (2003)
A critical discourse analysis of family literacy practices
Lawrence Erlbaum.
Schjerve, Rosita Rindler (ed.) (2003)
Diglossia & power
Mouton de Gruyter
Schreier, Daniel (2003)
Isolation & language change
Palgrave Macmillan
2005
The 2005 BAAL book prize was awarded to:
Edwards, Viv (2004)
Multilingualism in the English-speaking World
Blackwell
The titles short-listed for the 2005 BAAL Book Prize are:
Bolton, Kingsley (2004)
Chinese Englishes: a sociolinguistic history
Cambridge University Press
Carter, Ronald (2004)
Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk
Routledge
Seedhouse, Paul (2004)
The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom: A Conversation Analysis Perspective
Blackwell
2006
BAAL BOOK PRIZE 2006
Shortlisted books
Keith Brown (ed)
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
(Elsevier)
Kees de Bot and Sinfree Makoni
Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts
(Multilingual Matters)
Mike Hoey
Lexical Priming
(Routledge)
Aneta Pavlenko
Emotions and Multilingualism
(Cambridge University Press)
2007
The 2007 BAAL book prize was awarded to:
Rampton, Ben (2006)
Language in Late Modernity
Cambridge University Press
The titles short-listed for the 2007 BAAL Book Prize are:
Benwell, Bethan & Elizabeth Stokoe (2006)
Discourse and Identity
Edinburgh University Press
Holmes, Janet (2006)
Gendered Talk at Work
Blackwell
Rubdy, Rani and Saraceni, Mario (eds) (2006)
English in the World: global rules, global roles.
Continuum
APR Howatt: History of Language Learning and Applied Linguistics
British Association founded 10 years before American one:
Applied Linguistics History in Wikipedia
A History of English Language Teaching by APR Howatt and HG Widdowson
Google Books
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) (Paperback)
Google Books
"An interesting summary of the various methods used in language teaching for the last 100 years or so.If you are a language teacher,it may well be of interest to you,but it doesn`t give any easy answers,prefering rather to explore the wide range of options available to teachers."
This review is from: A History of English Language Teaching ELT (2nd Edition) (Oxford Applied Linguistics Series) (Paperback)
As an English teacher I was really looking forward to this book but actually it turned out to be a bit of a let down.
I was interested mostly in post-war English teaching and the various developments of methodology, tests and institutions when the post war period only accounts for about 1/3 of the total content. It really is a 'history' in the sense that it starts way back with the very first English lessons which we have evidence of. The problem with this is, -who is the audience? General readers of history might find it to be a quaint curiosity whereas it doesn't inform English teachers about their field particularly. As it was part of the OUP applied ling. series I assumed it would have quite a lot of the things I mentioned earlier. I'm interested in why and when teaching practices changed, hopefully this would inform my own teaching but sadly this book offers little of that.
It is well reseached an thorough in the topic area it deals with, I'm just not sure who is actually interested in reading about that
Applied Linguistics History in Wikipedia
A History of English Language Teaching by APR Howatt and HG Widdowson
Google Books
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) (Paperback)
Google Books
"An interesting summary of the various methods used in language teaching for the last 100 years or so.If you are a language teacher,it may well be of interest to you,but it doesn`t give any easy answers,prefering rather to explore the wide range of options available to teachers."
This review is from: A History of English Language Teaching ELT (2nd Edition) (Oxford Applied Linguistics Series) (Paperback)
As an English teacher I was really looking forward to this book but actually it turned out to be a bit of a let down.
I was interested mostly in post-war English teaching and the various developments of methodology, tests and institutions when the post war period only accounts for about 1/3 of the total content. It really is a 'history' in the sense that it starts way back with the very first English lessons which we have evidence of. The problem with this is, -who is the audience? General readers of history might find it to be a quaint curiosity whereas it doesn't inform English teachers about their field particularly. As it was part of the OUP applied ling. series I assumed it would have quite a lot of the things I mentioned earlier. I'm interested in why and when teaching practices changed, hopefully this would inform my own teaching but sadly this book offers little of that.
It is well reseached an thorough in the topic area it deals with, I'm just not sure who is actually interested in reading about that
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Rippon Grammar School Site for French
One Man Site by Spaniard from Cantabria
Comments on How to Learn an MLF
13,000 Subscibers to Internet Language Learning Site
only 1 pound 20 per month!
Jane Hart's Top 100 Language Learning Links
Learn MFL free with mp3 files
The voice marketplace
La guía inteligente de formación learn everything online, including languages
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