Books
CORPUSLab Books
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Business Phrasal Words This book introduces the most commons phrasal verbs used in Business English. It is based on corpus data and uses corpus-based examples throughout. Download sample units here. This title is available on Amazon.
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Phrasal Verbs Phrasal Verbs is a guide that introduces the most commons phrasal verbs in American English and uses corpus-based examples throughout. This title is available on Amazon.
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Academic Writing in Social Science blahs.
Older Books
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Learning with Corpora This volume published in 2001 elegantly and comprehensively illustrates the connection between corpora and language learning. Learning with Corpora edited by Guy Aston includes the following topics:
Corpora in language pedagogy: an overview, Guy Aston
Corpora and their uses in language research, Alan PartingtonCorpus-based description in teaching and learning, Alan Partington
The pedagogic use of spoken corpora, Daniela Zorzi
The learner as researcher, Laura Gavioli
Integrating corpus work into an academic reading course, Ray Brodine
Corpora, translation, and language learning, Federico Zanettin
Exploring cultural connotations through ad hoc corpora, Franco Bertaccini and Guy Aston
A learner explores general language corpora, Silvia Bernardini. The book is available at Amazon. -
Concordances in the Classroom 1997 This The book is available at Amazon.This book provides a clear, very well written introduction to the use of concordance data in the language classroom.
Using concrete examples, the authors Chris Tribble and Glyn Jones show how a concordancer can be used to significantly enrich classes on language learning and literature.
Reprinted version of a Longman title.
The topics include:
What is concordancing? What can it do?
Preparation
Searching
Concordancing output as teaching material
Interactive uses of concordancing
Concordances and literature in foreign language teaching
Do-it-yourself concordancers
