Corpus Linguistics for Education by Pérez-Paredes, Pascual;

Short description:

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.

Long description:

Corpus Linguistics for Education provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the use of corpus research-methods in the field of education. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of educationally relevant topics, this book:

• 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.

Table of Contents:

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