Elective course:Corpora in Language Teaching 3200-M1-PF-KNJ
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with various applications of language corpora in foreign language teaching. The issues covered include an introduction to corpora and a presentation of corpus resources available on the Internet. Students will get to know the methods of corpus analyses and will learn to use a range of corpus tools for different searches. The course will also present ways of using corpus-derived linguistic information for teaching vocabulary, phraseology, grammar and discourse organization, as well as methods of working with corpora in class. The course will also discuss the application of corpora for syllabus development for teaching specialized language. Students will compile their own mini-corpora and learn how to analyze them for pedagogic purposes. Examples of applications of corpora will be drawn from the practice of teaching English and Polish as foreign languages.
Student's workload:
Participation in classes 30 godz.
Preparation for classes 30 godzin
Preparation of the term project 25 godzin
Total 85 godzin
Format of work: presentations, tasks involving analyzing corpus data, and individual work outside the classroom
If classroom learning is impossible, the classes will be conducted with the help of distance communication tools: Moodle and Google Meet.
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Prerequisites (description)
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Learning outcomes
After completing the course students will know various corpus resources available on the Internet and will be able to use tools for their analyses. Student will know how to prepare lessons based on corpus data and/or including students’ use of corpora. Student will also be able to prepare a syllabus for teaching a specialized language based on an analysis of a specialized corpus.
Assessment criteria
• Completing all class assignments
• Preparing one/two corpus-based teaching activities
• Creating a mini-corpus of specialized language and analysing it for pedagogic purposes
• Preparing one lesson plan involving the use of a corpus by the teacher and/or students
Final mark:
90% end-of-semester project (min-corpus, its analysis and a lesson plan)
10% mean mark for homework assignments
Practical placement
does not apply
Bibliography
Ghadessy, M., A. Henry, R.L. Roseberry. Small Corpus Studies and ELT. John Benjamins. 2001.
Hunston, S. Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. 2002.
O’Keeffe, A., M. McCarthy, R. Carter. From Corpus to Classroom. Cambridge University Press. 2007.
Reppen, R. Using Corpora in the Language Classroom. Cambridge University Press. 2010.
Tognini-Bonelli, E. Corpus Linguistics at Work. John Benjamins 2001.
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