How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book,
Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English …

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative
handbook dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. It has been …

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: De Silva Joyce, Helen.| Feez, Susan. Title: Exploring …

A critical examination of key concepts and issues in corpus linguistics, with a particular focus
on the expanding interdisciplinary nature of the field and the role that written and spoken …

While corpus studies have progressed and expanded enormously in the last ten years and
involved various aspects of applied linguistics, including language teaching, learners' …

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-
stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an …

Computer corpora have many potential applications in teaching and learning languages, the
most direct of which–when the learners explore a corpus themselves–has become known as …

In its earliest stages of development the Common European Framework of Reference for
Languages (CEFR) included vocabulary lists in its materials and these gave some indication …

Many uses have been found for corpora in language teaching and learning, most radically
perhaps where learners explore the data themselves. Such procedures are especially …

Applications of corpus linguistics to language teaching began in the late eighties and early
nineties. Examples of early work are Higgins and Johns (1984), Higgins (1988), Johns …