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Teaching grammar again after twenty years: corpus-based help for teaching grammar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Tony McEnery,
Andrew Wilson and
Paul Barker
Tony McEnery
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
Andrew Wilson
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
Paul Barker
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
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Abstract

In this paper we consider how corpora may be of use in the teaching of grammar of the pre-tertiary level. Corpora are becoming well established in teaching in Universities. Corpora also have a role to play in secondary education, in that they can help decide how and what to teach, as well as changing the way in which puplis learn and providing the possibility of open-ended machine-aided tuition. Corpora also seem to provide what UK goverment sponsored reports on teaching grammar have called for – a data-driven approach to the subject.

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ReCALL , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , November 1997, pp. 8 - 16
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Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1997

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