Autorentext

Szilvia Szita is Head of Department of Hungarian Studies at Strasbourg University, France, and the President of KorSzak / CorPed, an international research group on corpus linguistics and pedagogical practices at the University of Pécs, Hungary.

Klappentext

This volume links corpus research to classroom practice and critically assesses how the integration of a corpus-informed methodology affects pedagogical choices, teaching materials and classroom activities.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1

Setting the framework: From the traditional Communicative Approach to the Principled Communicative Approach

PART 1

Key findings from corpus linguistics in the service of the Principled Communicative Approach

Chapter 2

What is naturalness

Chapter 3

General features of naturalness (1): Textual-situational well-formedness

Chapter 4

General features of naturalness (2): Frequency of occurrence and multi-word units

Chapter 5

General features of naturalness (3): Patterns

Chapter 6

General features of naturalness (4): Linguistic creativity

Chapter 7

Specific features of naturalness (1): Key elements of written communication

Chapter 8

Specific features of naturalness (2): Key elements of spoken communication

PART 2

Enhancing the toolkit of the Principled Communicative Approach: Corpus-informed teaching materials, pedagogical corpora, activities and model texts

Chapter 9

Corpus-informed textbooks

Chapter 10

Pedagogical corpora (1): Written corpora

Chapter 11

Pedagogical corpora (2): Spoken corpora

Chapter 12

Observing and practising natural language use in pedagogical corpora

Chapter 13

Combining corpus tools and representative model texts

Chapter 14

Putting it all together: Towards a corpus-informed Principled Communicative Approach

Index