Teaching English with Corpora

Vander Viana is Associate Professor in Education, directs the Master’s course in TESOL and is the founder/leader of the Language in Education Research Group at the University of East Anglia. His areas of research expertise include corpus linguistics, English for academic purposes, TESOL and language teacher education.

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of abbreviations

List of appendices

Acknowledgements

At-a-glance chapter taxonomy

Introduction

Corpora in and for TESOL

Vander Viana

Part A: English for General Purposes






Using concordance lines to teach participial adjectives
Sean Sutherland




Starting out with phrasal verbs
Rosie Harvey & Irene Marín Cervantes




Teaching collocations with ‘Survey Says’
Robin Sulkosky




A grand problem and a jolly solution: Unmasking false friends with corpus analysis
Natalie Finlayson




Raising awareness of first-language interference using parallel corpora of subtitles
Elen Le Foll




If you speak English, take one step forward: Teaching conditionals through kinesthetic activities
Riah Werner




Preposition repair: Empowering learners to fix their errors
Amy Tate




KWIC searches for quick answers: Solving word choice problems
Pamela Everly




She said she told him: Patterning in reported speech
Michael H. Brown




Using VocabProfilers to select texts for extensive reading activities
Thi Ngoc Yen Dang




Talking about the weather: Exploring adjective use with Sketch Engine for Language Learning
John Williams




Food talks: Using corpus data to link cooking methods with types of food
Vander Viana




Profiling let and make with the Corpus of Contemporary American English
Ben Naismith




Corpus exploration of phrasal and Latinate verbs
Eric Nicaise




Minimal prep quizzes: Using online corpora to foster vocabulary learning
Nick Canning




Helping learners identify high-frequency words
Shoaziz Sharakhimov & Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov




Writing online reviews
Natalia Mora-López




Exploring similes in corpus data
Natalie Finlayson




Exploring register variation in the use of indefinite pronouns
Irina Pandarova




Using corpora to explore varieties of English
Natalie Finlayson




Searching for frequent words for pronunciation activities
Roger W. Gee




Abstract nouns in picture descriptions
Tomáš Mach




Tell me what your collocates are and I will tell you who you are
Tülay Dixon & Daniel Dixon




I feel kinda blah! Investigating language use in blogs
Maristella Gatto




I see what you mean: Exploring figurative uses of language
Sally Zacharias & Jane Evison




I was able to learn a new point: Examining the difference between could and was/were able to
Martha Michieka & Theresa McGarry




Learning about words in use with StringNet Navigator
Anastasiia Kryzhanivska




Investigating adverbials in British English: Although vs. though in spoken and written language
Lu Lu




Using Voyant Tools to enhance learners’ reflections on their writing
Nausica Marcos Miguel




Gender equality in the TESOL classroom: Exploring news stories from around the world
Vander Viana




Phrasal verbs in use: Investigating meaning and form
Vander Viana




Keywords in amateur online film reviews
Chad Langford & Joshua Albair




Formulaic language in amateur online film reviews
Chad Langford & Joshua Albair




Exploring semantic prosody with trainee teachers
Jenny Kemp & Luke Timms




A smile which melted her heart: Exploring metaphors in English corpora
Wendy Anderson




Small words? Discourse markers in spoken language
Loretta Fung




I’m so sorry: Intensification in American English across time
Anne Barron




Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness
Anne Barron




Whilst I do not object, I strongly believe... Exploring spoken argumentative and persuasive discourse
Elen Le Foll




Register variation in newspapers: Working with multidimensional analysis in English language teacher education
Vander Viana

Part B: English for Specific Purposes




Exploring terms in English for specific purposes
Nicole Brun-Mercer




Teaching verbs using learner-compiled corpora
Peter Dye




Is there a better choice? Verb-noun combinations in academic writing
Valdenia Almeida, Barbara Malveira Orfanò & Deise Dutra




Problem and solution markers: Exploring lexical combinations
Eman Elturki




Cloze exercises for mixed-ability groups: Using the Academic Word List Gapmaker
Loretta Fung




Signaling transitions in academic writing
Nicole Brun-Mercer




Boosting your message: Using adverbs for impact in business writing
Linda Slattery, Catherine Prewett-Schrempf, Andrew Pullen & Matthew Urmston




Using the British National Corpus to teach phrases from spoken and academic English
Paweł Szudarski




Using keyness to teach about academic speaking
Michael Suhan & Kyle Lucas




Teaching small-group academic discussions
Valeriia Bogorevich & Elnaz Kia




Which words should I look up? Identifying unknown high-frequency words in English for academic purposes
Jenny Kemp & Laurence Anthony




Reflecting and acting on academic vocabulary use
Katie Mitchell Burrows




Which verb should I use? Disciplinary variation in reporting verbs
Joseph J. Lee




Using Google Scholar to support lexical choices in English for academic purposes
Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov & Randall Sadler




Exploring collocations in the Corpus of Contemporary American English
Sharon Hartle




How can I be more specific in my writing? Exploring relative pronouns in English for academic purposes
Jenny Kemp & Laurence Anthony




Don’t write like that! Avoiding contractions in academic writing
Megan Bruce




Climate change or global warming? Analyzing, interpreting and reporting findings
Robert Poole




Research findings for all: Popular science communication on global challenges
Luciano Franco & Vander Viana




Exploring the speech act of confirming/verifying information in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
Ildiko Porter-Szucs




Identifying noun–verb patterns in scientific abstracts
Mónica Rodríguez-Castro & Spencer Salas




Using a concordancer to teach how to write about results
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe




Using corpora to explore vocabulary for writing conclusions
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe




Finding your academic voice: Use of nominalizations in academic writing
Megan Bruce




Investigating complex noun–noun modification in academic prose
Sabrina Fusari




Exploring adverbs for cohesion and critical voice
Andrew Drummond




Exploring discipline-specific and paper-specific vocabulary
Anastasiia Kryzhanivska




Language patterns and rhetorical moves in research papers
Eman Elturki




Investigating references to a celebrity in a do-it-yourself obituary corpus
Rudy Loock




Thanking politely and saying no gracefully to business invitations

Lisa Leopold

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