Textbooks for language teachers

 

1.       O’Keeffe, A., McCarthy, M., & Carter, R. (2007). From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.

2.       Reppen, R. (2010). Using Corpora in the Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press.

3.       Flowerdew, L. (2012). Corpora and Language Education. Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355569

4.       Timmis, I. (Leeds B. U. (2015). Corpus Linguistics for ELT: Research and Practice. Routledge.

5.       Friginal, E. (2018). Corpus Linguistics for English Teachers: Tools, Online Resources, and Classroom Activities (1st Edition). Routledge.

6.       Harrington, K., & Ronan, P. (Eds.). (2023). Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Resource books

 

1.       Bennett, G. (2010). Using Corpora in the Language Learning Classroom: Corpus Linguistics for Teachers (Illustrated Edition). Michigan ELT

2.       Thomas, J. (2016). Discovering English with Sketch Engine. Versatile.

3.       Anderson, W., & Corbett, J. (2017). Exploring English with online corpora: An introduction (Second edition). Palgrave Macmillan.

4.       Poole, R. (2018). A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners. Edinbourgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-a-guide-to-using-corpora-for-english-language-learners.html

5.       Viana, V. (Ed.). (2022). Teaching English with Corpora: A Resource Book. Routledge.

 

Online teaching materials

 

1.       Foll, E. L. (Ed.). (2021). Creating Corpus-Informed Materials for the English as a Foreign Language Classroom. Pressbooks. https://pressbooks.pub/elenlefoll/

2.       Pinto, P. T., Crosthwaite, P., Carvalho, C. T. de, Spinelli, F., Serpa, T., Garcia, W., & Ottaiano, A. O. (2023). Using Language Data to Learn About Language: A Teachers’ Guide to Classroom Corpus Use. The University of Queensland. https://doi.org/10.14264/3bbe92d. https://uq.pressbooks.pub/using-language-data/

3.       Goulart, L. & Veloso, I. (2023). Corpora in English Language Teaching. Classroom Activities for Teachers New to Corpus Linguistics. Pressbooks. https://pressbooks.pub/testbook123/

4.       The EdUHK Corpus Team (2024). Enhancing corpus literacy and competence for corpus-based language pedagogy for in- and pre-service English teachers. Pressbook. https://pressbooks.pub/cmtry1/

 

Websites

 

1.       The Corpus-Aided Platform for Language Teacher (CAP). The Education University of Hong Kong. https://corpus.eduhk.hk/cap/

 

Research

 

1.       Leńko-Szymańska, A & Boulton, A. (eds.) (2015) Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.69

2.       Jablonkai R.R. & Csomay, E. (eds.) (2022) The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning. London & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003002901

 

Pedagogical corpus resources:

 

1.       Lextutor: https://www.lextutor.ca/conc/eng/

2.       SKELL: https://skell.sketch engine.eu/
(three key search functions, available for six languages; Baisa & Suchomel, 2014)

3.       Netspeak: https://netspeak.org/
(streamlined search functions, Google Books, available for English and German)

4.       ColloCaid: https://www.collocaid.uk/
(Frankenberg-Garcia et al., 2019)

5.       Linggle: https://search.linggle.com/

6.       Corpus Mate: https://corpusmate.com/
(Crosthwaite & Baisa 2024)

7.       Academic Phrasebank: https://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk

(Morley, 2023)

8.       Parallel EAP Corpora: https://corpus.eduhk.hk/eap/
(EdUHK, advanced search functions on different sections of research writing, e.g., introduction, literature review, methodology, etc.)

9.        BackBone
(Kohn, Hoffstaedter, & Widmann, 2009

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