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Increasing Naturalness in the Language Learning Classroom

Towards a Corpus-Informed Principled Communicative Approach
 
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Short description:

This volume links corpus research to classroom practice and critically assesses how the integration of a corpus-informed methodology affects pedagogical choices, teaching materials and classroom activities.

Long description:

This volume links corpus research to classroom practice and critically assesses how the integration of a corpus-informed methodology affects pedagogical choices, teaching materials and classroom activities. Focusing on the language classroom, and drawing on examples from English, French, German and Hungarian, this book demonstrates that such methodology is applicable to languages with very different properties.


Drawing on both larger, general and smaller, more specialised corpora, including both spoken and written data, this volume:



  • presents the key features of natural language according to corpus linguistics, establishing principles and methods to observe and practice natural-sounding language use

  • suggests the characteristics of a coherent, corpus-informed methodology and contrasts this with existing methodologies

  • explores ways in which this methodology can enhance language learning and discusses the types of activities that are most effective

  • explains how this methodology be integrated into teacher training

Bridging the long-persisting gap between corpus-informed language teaching research and applied classroom reform, this book is key reading for researchers in applied linguistics and language pedagogy, as well as teacher trainers and practitioners.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION


 


Chapter 1


Setting the framework: From the traditional Communicative Approach to the Principled Communicative Approach


 


PART 1


Key findings from corpus linguistics in the service of the Principled Communicative Approach


 


Chapter 2


What is naturalness


 


Chapter 3


General features of naturalness (1): Textual-situational well-formedness


 


Chapter 4


General features of naturalness (2): Frequency of occurrence and multi-word units


 


Chapter 5


General features of naturalness (3): Patterns


 


Chapter 6


General features of naturalness (4): Linguistic creativity


 


Chapter 7


Specific features of naturalness (1): Key elements of written communication


 


Chapter 8


Specific features of naturalness (2): Key elements of spoken communication


 


PART 2


Enhancing the toolkit of the Principled Communicative Approach: Corpus-informed teaching materials, pedagogical corpora, activities and model texts


 


Chapter 9


Corpus-informed textbooks


 


Chapter 10


Pedagogical corpora (1): Written corpora


 


Chapter 11


Pedagogical corpora (2): Spoken corpora


 


Chapter 12


Observing and practising natural language use in pedagogical corpora


 


Chapter 13


Combining corpus tools and representative model texts


 


Chapter 14


Putting it all together: Towards a corpus-informed Principled Communicative Approach


 


Index