[Corpora-List] New book -- Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy...

[Ute Römer]

Some list members might be interested in the following most recent
publication in the Benjamins Studies in Corpus Linguistics series:

 

Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy. A corpus-driven approach to English
progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics.

Ute Römer, University of Hanover

 

This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in
'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general
linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic
comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the
largest existing corpora of spoken British English and from a small corpus
of EFL textbook texts highlights numerous differences between actual
language use and textbook language concerning the distribution of
progressives, their preferred contexts, favoured functions, and typical
lexical-grammatical patterns. On the basis of these differences, a number of
pedagogical implications are derived, the integration of which then leads to
a first draft of an innovative concept of teaching progressives - a concept
which responds to three key criteria in pedagogical description: typicality,
authenticity, and communicative utility. The analysis also demonstrates that
many existing accounts of the progressive are inappropriate in several
respects and that not enough attention is being paid to lexical-grammatical
relations.

 

Table of contents:

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: A need to take stock of progressives

2. The theoretical basis of the study: Corpora, contexts, didactics

3. Progressives in theoretical studies and grammars of English

4. Progressives in spoken British English

5. Progressive teaching (?): Progressives in the German EFL classroom

6. Progressives in real spoken English and in "school" English: A comparison

7. Pedagogical implications: True facts, textbooks, teaching

8. Conclusions: Corpus, practice, theory

Notes

References

Index

 

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 18] August 2005. xiv + 328 pp. 

Hb 90 272 2289 4

See also http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2018. 

An electronic flyer can be downloaded from
http://www.uteroemer.com/scl.18.pdf.  

 

Best wishes... Ute

 

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Ute Römer 
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University of Hanover 
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