CONTENTS
Preface = xi
Editors' acknowledgements = xii
Publisher acknowledgements = xiii
Contributors = xv
General Introduction = xvi
1 Teaching and Language Corpora ： a Convergence / Geoffrey Leech = 1
Section A Why Use Corpora? = 25
2 Corpus Evidence in Language Description / John M. Sinclair = 27
3 Corpora and the Teaching of English in Germany / Dieter Mindt = 40
4 Enriching the Learning Environment ： Corpora in ELT / Guy Aston = 51
Section B Teaching Languages = 65
5 All the Language that's Fit to Print ： Using British and American Newspaper CD-ROMs as Corpora / David Minugh = 67
6 Exploring Texts through the Concordancer ： Guiding the Learner / Laura Gavioli = 83
7 Contexts ： the Background, Development and Trialling of a Concordance-based CALL Program / Tim Johns = 100
8 The Automatic Generation of CALL Exercises from General Corpora / Eve Wilson = 116
9 Exploiting a Corpus of Written German for Advanced Language Learning / Bill Dodd = 131
10 Creating and Using a Corpus of Spoken German / Randall L. Jones = 146
11 The Role of Corpora in Studying and Promoting Welsh / Khurshid Ahmad ; Andrea Davies = 157
Section C Teaching Linguistics = 173
12 Micro- and Macrolinguistics for Natural Language Processing / Pam Peters = 175
13 Using a Corpus to Evaluate Theories of Child Language Acquisition / Bernhard Kettemann = 186
14 Using Corpora for the Diachronic Study of English / Gerry Knowles = 195
15 The Use of Annotated Speech Corpora in the Teaching of Prosody / Anne Wichmann = 211
16 Corpus and Concordance ： Finding out about Style / Howard Jackson = 224
17 The Role of Corpora in Critical Literary Appreciation / Bill Louw = 240
Section D Practical Perspectives = 253
18 Teaching Corpus Linguistics to Teachers of English / Antoinette Renouf = 255
19 First Catch your Corpus ： Building a French Undergraduate Corpus from Readily Available Textual Resources / Gordon Inkster = 267
20 Creating and Processing Corpora in Greek and Cyrillic Alphabets on the Personal Computer / Philip King = 277
21 Developing a Computing Infrastructure for Corpus-based Teaching / Graeme Hughes = 292
Appendices = 309
1 Further Investigation ： a Brief Guide = 311
2 Sources of Information and Electronic Texts = 313
3 Corpora Mentioned in this Book = 318
4 Software Mentioned in this Book = 321
5 An Informal Glossary of Computing Terms = 323
References = 327
Index = 340
