Readings

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The reading list with links to the actual readings will be posted on the library website by John Laurie.

Books in Short Loan

Altenberg, Bengt. Granger, Sylviane, (eds) 2002.  Lexis in contrast. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins.
413.028 A46

Coffin, Caroline, Hewings, Ann. O'Halloran, Kieran. 2004.  Applying English grammar : functional and corpus
approaches. London : Arnold.
425 C67

Connor, Ulla, Upton, Thomas A. (eds) 2004 Applied corpus linguistics : a multidimensional perspective. Amsterdam : Rodopi.
410.285 C75

Hunston, Susan, 2002. Corpora in applied linguistics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Leistyna, Pepi. Meyer, Charles F. 2003. Corpus analysis : language structure and language use. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi.
401.41 N86

Meyer, Charles F. 2002. English corpus linguistics : an introduction. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
420.285 M61

Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2004. Collocations in a learner corpus
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins.
418.0071 N46

Semino, Elena, Short, Michael H. Corpus stylistics : speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing.
420.1410285 S47

Sinclair, John McHardy. 2004. Trust the text : language, corpus and discourse, New York, N.Y. : Taylor & Francis.
401.41 S61t

Tan, Melinda. (ed) 2002. Corpus studies in language education

Reference List

The readings are repeated here for convenience. Actual links are only on the Auckland library site above.

REQUIRED TEXTS 

• Hunston, S. 2002. Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.
  
  

• Barlow, M. 2003. Concordancing and Corpus Analysis Using MP 2.2. Houston: Athelstan [pdf file] 

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WEEKLY READINGS

Week 1

• Hunston. Chap 1. Introduction to a corpus in use.

• Barlow. Chaps 1 and 3. Introduction. Wordlists and frequency lists.

Week 2

• Hunston. Chap 3. Methods in Corpus Linguistics: Interpreting concordance lines

• Kaur & Hegelheimer. 2005. ESL students' use of concordance in the transfer of academic word knowledge: An exploratory study. Computer Assisted Language Learning, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p287-310
  

• Barlow, M. 2004. Software for corpus access. In J.M. Sinclair (ed). How to use Corpora in Language Teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp.205-221.

Week 3

• Hunston. Chap 2. The corpus as object: Design and purpose

• Barlow. Chap 2. Working with a corpus

Week 4

• Barlow, M. Learner Corpora chapter in Ellis and Barkhuizen.

• Granger, S. 2002. A bird's-eye view of learner corpus research. In S. Granger, J. Hung and S. Petch-Tyson (eds) Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp.3-33.
  

Week 5

• Barlow Chap 5. The power of regular expressions.

• Partington, A. 2001. Corpus-based description in language and teaching. In G. Aston (ed) Learning with Corpora. Houston: Athelstan. pp. 63-84.

Week 6

• No reading

Week 7

• Hunston. Chap 4.

• Barlow, Chap 6. The search for syntax

• Partington, A. 1998. Collocation and phrase patterns. (Chapter 1.) In Patterns and Meanings: Using Corpora for English Language Research and Teaching.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp.15-28.
  

Week 8

• Hunston. Chap 6. Issues of language description

Week 9

• Hunston. Chap 7. Corpora and language teaching: general applications

• Gavioli, L. 2001. Learner as researcher: introducing corpus concordancing in the classroom. In G. Aston (ed) Learning with Corpora. Athelstan: Houston. pp108-137

• Bloch, J. 2009. The Design of an Online Concordancing Program for Teaching about Reporting Verbs. Language Learning & Technology, 13(1), 59-78

Week 10 

• Burdine, S.. 2001. The lexical phrase as pedagogical tool: Teaching disagreement strategies in ESL. In R. Simpson and J. Swales (eds) Corpus Linguistics in North America. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. pp.195-210

• McCarthy, M. 1998. What should we teach about the spoken language? In M.McCarthy.  Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP. pp49-68 (Chap 3.)

Week 11

• Hunston. Chap 8. Corpora and language teaching: Specific applications

• Johns, Tim. 1991, Should you be persuaded: Two examples of data-driven learning, English Language Research Journal, 4(1):1-16. 

• Boulton, Alex. 2009. Testing the limits of data-driven learning: language proficiency and training, ReCALL ,  21(1) 37-54
  

Week 12

• Chan & Liou. 2005,  Effects of Web-based Concordancing Instruction on EFL Students' Learning of Verb – Noun Collocations. Computer Assisted Language Learning,  Vol. 18 Issue 3, p231-251
  
  

• Barlow, Michael. 2000. Parallel texts in language teaching. In S. Botley, A. McEnery and A. Wilson (eds) Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp.106-115.