Accessing and interpreting corpus information in the teacher education context

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11437999
AutoresMarina Mccarthy (0000-0001-6795-3816, University of Nottingham, autor correspondente), Michael Mccarthy (0000-0003-3484-8360)
Ano2008
Volume41
Fascículo4
Páginas563-574
Data de publicação2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage Teaching (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-4448 • E-ISSN: 1475-3049
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261444808005247
OpenAlexW2054116804
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas16

As more and more teachers become aware of corpus resources and their applications, questions arise as to how best to prepare teachers in training appropriately to access and interpret corpus information. This is important as an element of materials evaluation as more and more types of materials and resources become corpus-informed. To date, relatively little attention has been given in teacher education programmes to the growing influence of corpora and the skills of evaluating and using corpora, but such skills will become increasingly important as the influence of corpora becomes more dominant in our profession. In this talk I argue that a shift is needed in the relationship between teachers, academics and publishers, from the teacher seen as consumer to the teacher as participant in the corpus revolution. I then consider the questions which need to be asked in evaluating corpora and the pedagogical resources which are based upon them. I look at the strengths and weaknesses of available corpus resources, and how corpus statistical output can be interpreted. Finally, I touch on the issue of reflective practice corpora within teacher education

Context (archaeology · Corpus linguistics · Element (criminal law · Pedagogy · Political science · Strengths and weaknesses · Teacher education · Text corpus · Computer Science · History · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence