Ebook: Touchstone From Corpus to Course Book

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 23 p.A corpus, then, is simply a large collection of texts that we can analyze using computer software, just as we can access the millions of texts on the Internet. It is not a theory of language learning or a teaching methodology, but it does influence our way of thinking about language and the kinds of texts and examples we use in language teaching.Table of Contents:What is a corpus?
What applications have there been in language teaching?
What kinds of information do textbook writers use from corpora?
How do we analyze corpora?
How are corpus-informed materials different?
How do corpus-informed textbooks help teachers and learners more than traditional ones?
What will we see in the future?
Appendices.
Glossary.
Table of figures.
Further reading.