This chapter explains how concordances have developed since their first use several
hundreds of years ago, how the results of searches through electronic corpora can be …

This chapter considers why individual language users and researchers may find it difficult to
identify patterns. A pattern is essentially repetition. A symbol may occur once only: but when …

Corpora, corpus-analytic tools and corpus evidence have been increasingly used in English
language teaching and learning for the last two decades. Many empirical studies in corpus …

This study proposes a comprehensive framework for a Conversation Analysis (CA) informed
English language teacher education program in Turkey. By reviewing recent studies in CA …

Recent corpus linguistic (CL) investigations of academic discourse (both written and
spoken) have tended to use easily excisable lexical items and/or grammatical forms to …

This study investigates and compares the use of discourse markers (DMs) by native
speakers and learners of English based on a corpus of adolescent intercultural exchange …

This study reports on a corpus analysis of samples of spoken discourse between a group of
British and Taiwanese adolescents, with the aim of exploring the statistically significant …

This study arises from two contextualised problems faced by the students at the Faculty of
Applied Sciences (FAS) of a small university in Sri Lanka. These problems are: students' …

The present study investigates the discourse functions of recurrent multi-word sequences in
computer-mediated communication (CMC) and face-to-face (FTF) interaction by a group of …

Following an overview of early frequency-based research of recurring word combinations
and patterns, three current methods within SLA focusing spoken and written production are …