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    Increasing Naturalness in the Language Learning Classroom: Towards a Corpus-Informed Principled Communicative Approach

    Increasing Naturalness in the Language Learning Classroom by Szita, Szilvia;

    Towards a Corpus-Informed Principled Communicative Approach

    Series: Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics;

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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.

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    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.

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    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

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