Discusses an interdisciplinary approach to foreign language learning that is integrated with an academic/professional curriculum as opposed to a traditional beginner's course. The use of an electronic concordance is described; the language of a pedagogic corpus is examined; and an example is given of an Italian course for Renaissance theater…

Revisits the debate on linguistics and prescription, with particular reference to corpus linguistics. The article describes an encounter with a large corpus and concludes that intuitive prescription is an essential, desirable aspect of language teaching which does not depend on corpus evidence for its integrity. (nine references) (Author/CK)

Advocates a concordance- and genre-based approach to academic essay writing for non-native students. Describes a project that aimed to teach undergraduate law students to write formal legal essays. Students identified structural characteristics and used concordances to explore possible correlations between the generic structures and particular…

Investigates the roles of "just," a lexical item that is among the most frequent in distinguishing academic speech data from roughly comparable written data in the Michigan Corpus of Academic English. Concordance analysis showed that "just" frequently co-occurs with metadiscourse and hedging; a closer functional analysis in…

Highlights methods of teaching grammar that have been adapted for computer-assisted language learning. (Author/VWL)

This paper sets out a series of awareness tasks for introducing English-as-a-Second-Language teachers to English language corpora and concordances. The aim of the task is to make teachers more critical of how English is described and presented in course materials and to show them that corpora are a good resource for language investigation.…

Presents methods for using the Longman Mini-Concordancer on tagged and parsed corpora rather than plain text corpora. The article discusses several aspects with models to be applied in the classroom as an aid to grammar learning. This paper suggests exercises suitable for teaching English to both native and nonnative speakers. (13 references)…

Describes a way of using English concordances, when English is the language of instruction, in the teaching of German. The article suggests that concordances have the potential to address problems faced by undergraduate learners. These problems include a lack of awareness of different levels of meaning in language. (two references) (CK)

Discussion of the use of computerized concordancers (computer software packages that enable large quantities of text to be searched for all occurrences of a particular lexical item) focuses on their potential as a tool for students to use in learning a second language. In considering the pedagogical value of such tools, three areas are considered.…

The value and role of concordancers (simple computer programs that can quickly analyze electronic texts to find occurrences of a given word, part of a word, or phrase and display it within its immediate context) in secondary school English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teaching are examined. First, their use in higher education is discussed,…