Corpora: ELT teaching materials

[Andrew Harley]

At 01:09 PM 23/02/2000 -0000, Young David wrote:
>
>Hello...this is a request for information!
> I would really like to find out more about how corpus linguistics is being
>used in the development of language teaching materials. Any information on
>the subject or websites that
>could put me in that general direction would be greatly appreciated.
>		Yours sincerely,	David Young.
>

Corpus materials are being used in the preparation of many new English
Language Teaching texts at Cambridge University Press. See
<http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/elt/reference/cic.htm>.

Key advantages of using corpus materials include: word lists based on
frequency (particularly useful for dictionary inclusion of course), natural
example sentences, common collocations, grammatical structures as they are
really used. Learner corpora
<http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/elt/reference/clc.htm> are also extremely useful
in showing typical learner errors.

Andrew Harley
Systems Development Manager - ELT Reference
Cambridge University Press

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