Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides

<p><em>Corpus Linguistics for ELT</em> provides a practical guide to undertaking ELT-related corpus research. Aimed at researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of ELT and TESOL, and English language teachers, this volume:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>covers corpus research in the main areas of language study relevant to ELT: grammar, lexis, ESP, spoken grammar and discourse;</li> <p> </p> <li>presents a review of relevant corpus research in these areas, and discusses the implications of this research for ELT;</li> <p> </p> <li>suggests potential ELT-focused corpus research projects, and equips the reader with all the required tools and techniques to carry them out;</li> <p> </p> <li>deals with the growing area of learner corpora and direct classroom application of corpus material.</li> </ul><p><i>Corpus Linguistics for ELT </i>empowers and inspires readers to carry out their own ELT corpus research, and will allow them in turn to make a significant contribution to corpus-informed ELT pedagogy.</p>