Corpus Linguistics for Education: A Guide for Research: Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
Autor Pascual Pérez-Paredesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2020
• covers 18 key skills including corpus building, the role of frequency, different corpus methods, transcription and annotation;
• demonstrates the use of available corpora and desktop and online corpus analysis tools to conduct original analyses;
• features case studies and step-by-step guides within each chapter;
• emphasises the use of interview data in research projects.
Corpus Linguistics for Education is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in education.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367198435
ISBN-10: 0367198436
Pagini: 194
Ilustrații: 23 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 51 Tables, black and white; 42 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367198436
Pagini: 194
Ilustrații: 23 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 51 Tables, black and white; 42 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateCuprins
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: corpus linguistics and education research
1.1 What is corpus linguistics?
1.2 The role of corpus linguistics research methods in education research
1.3 Understanding the role of frequency
1.3.1 Frequency in L1 learning and use
1.3.2 Frequency in public discourse
1.3.3 Frequency in texts or groups of texts
1.3.4 Skill 1: Why frequency matters
1.3.5 How to interpret frequency
References
Chapter 2: Analysing text
2.1 Different approaches to text analysis
2.2 Text as register
2.2.1 Corpus linguistics and the analysis of register
References
Chapter 3: Corpus linguistics approaches to understanding language use
3.1 Understanding and researching language use: discovering patterns
3.1.1 Corpus linguistics outside linguistics?
3.1.2 Case study 1. Examining interviews: qualitative versus CL methods
3.1.3 Case study 2. Examining policies: combining content analysis and corpus methods
3.1.4 Using an existing corpus
3.2 Reading concordance lines
3.2.1 How to read concordance lines?
3.3 Handling frequencies
3.3.1 Corpus size and relative frequencies
3.4 Collocations
References
Chapter 4: Researching education policies: using your own corpus
4.1 Basic corpus design features
4.1.1 Designing corpora
4.2 Comparison basics and significance testing
4.2.1 Comparison basics and part of speech (POS) tagging
4.3 Reviewing skills 1-11
4.3.1 Chapter 1
4.3.2 Chapter 2
4.3.3 Chapter 3
4.3.4 Chapter 4
References
Chapter 5: Interview data: transcription and annotation
5.1 Transcription: so much more than a monotonous task
5.2 Transcription basics
5.3 Adding structure and metadata to a corpus
5.3.1 Annotating a corpus using our own tags
5.3.2 Annotating a corpus using standard XML guidelines
References
Chapter 6: Examining lexis. analysing peace treaties and children´s literature
6.1 Examining lexis
6.2 Researching the lexicon: keywords
6.2.1 Introducing keyword analysis
6.2.2 Keyword analysis: a step-by-step guide
6.3 Researching nouns and noun phrases
6.3.1 Exploring individual nouns
6.3.2 Exploring multiword units
6.4 Analysing children´s literature: the lexicon of fiction
References
Chapter 7: Analysing talk: complex searches
7.1 Examining talk: a linguistic perspective
7.2 Complex searches
7.2.1 Living in a city
7.2.2 Understanding cultural differences
7.2.3 How is their family life impacted by work?
7.3 Putting all together: reviewing skills 12-17
7.3.1 Chapter 5
7.3.2 Chapter 6
7.3.3 Chapter 7
References
Chapter 8: Conclusion
References
Index
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: corpus linguistics and education research
1.1 What is corpus linguistics?
1.2 The role of corpus linguistics research methods in education research
1.3 Understanding the role of frequency
1.3.1 Frequency in L1 learning and use
1.3.2 Frequency in public discourse
1.3.3 Frequency in texts or groups of texts
1.3.4 Skill 1: Why frequency matters
1.3.5 How to interpret frequency
References
Chapter 2: Analysing text
2.1 Different approaches to text analysis
2.2 Text as register
2.2.1 Corpus linguistics and the analysis of register
References
Chapter 3: Corpus linguistics approaches to understanding language use
3.1 Understanding and researching language use: discovering patterns
3.1.1 Corpus linguistics outside linguistics?
3.1.2 Case study 1. Examining interviews: qualitative versus CL methods
3.1.3 Case study 2. Examining policies: combining content analysis and corpus methods
3.1.4 Using an existing corpus
3.2 Reading concordance lines
3.2.1 How to read concordance lines?
3.3 Handling frequencies
3.3.1 Corpus size and relative frequencies
3.4 Collocations
References
Chapter 4: Researching education policies: using your own corpus
4.1 Basic corpus design features
4.1.1 Designing corpora
4.2 Comparison basics and significance testing
4.2.1 Comparison basics and part of speech (POS) tagging
4.3 Reviewing skills 1-11
4.3.1 Chapter 1
4.3.2 Chapter 2
4.3.3 Chapter 3
4.3.4 Chapter 4
References
Chapter 5: Interview data: transcription and annotation
5.1 Transcription: so much more than a monotonous task
5.2 Transcription basics
5.3 Adding structure and metadata to a corpus
5.3.1 Annotating a corpus using our own tags
5.3.2 Annotating a corpus using standard XML guidelines
References
Chapter 6: Examining lexis. analysing peace treaties and children´s literature
6.1 Examining lexis
6.2 Researching the lexicon: keywords
6.2.1 Introducing keyword analysis
6.2.2 Keyword analysis: a step-by-step guide
6.3 Researching nouns and noun phrases
6.3.1 Exploring individual nouns
6.3.2 Exploring multiword units
6.4 Analysing children´s literature: the lexicon of fiction
References
Chapter 7: Analysing talk: complex searches
7.1 Examining talk: a linguistic perspective
7.2 Complex searches
7.2.1 Living in a city
7.2.2 Understanding cultural differences
7.2.3 How is their family life impacted by work?
7.3 Putting all together: reviewing skills 12-17
7.3.1 Chapter 5
7.3.2 Chapter 6
7.3.3 Chapter 7
References
Chapter 8: Conclusion
References
Index
Notă biografică
Pascual Pérez-Paredes is Professor in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the English Department, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. At the time of writing this book he was Lecturer in Research in Second Language Education (2015–19) and Overall Coordinator of the MEd Research Methods Strand (2016–19) at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. His main research interests are learner language variation, the use of corpora in language education and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. He has published research in journals such as Computer Assisted Language Learning , Discourse & Society, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Pragmatics, Language, Learning & Technology, System, ReCALL and the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and is an Assistant Editor of CUP ReCALL journal.
Descriere
Corpus Linguistics for Education Research provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the use of corpus research-methods in the field of education. It is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in education.