WorksheetsCorpora and Language Teaching (Römer, 2008).
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
The primary beneficiaries of direct corpora applications are...
... lexicographers and dictionary makers.
... textbook authors.
... linguists and researchers.
... learners and teachers.
One of the following is a specialised corpus of academic spoken English:
The BNC
The ANC
The MICASE
The COCA
What does CCEC stand for?
Cambridge Corpus English Course
Cambridge COBUILD English Course
Collins COBUILD English Course
Corpus and Concordance English Course
Corpus analysis has discovered a grammatical feature of English that is misrespresented in EFL textbooks:
The progressive is more frequent than expected in repeated actions.
"If" and "in case" are actually used synonymously.
The passive voice is a lot less common than we thought.
The progressive is surprisingly common in continuous events.
Which work had a great influence on curriculum design?
Corpus Concordance Collocation
COBUILD Grammar Patterns
English for Specific Purposes
General Service List of English Words
Michael West's corpus-inspired, pioneering work The General Service List of English Words (1953) was a...
... compilation of frequently used post-war code expressions.
... teaching syllabus based on words rather than grammatical constructions.
... practical set of bilingual materials for learners of English.
... teaching plan initially designed to help Commonwealth immigrants learn English.
Pawler and Syder have emphasized the importance of recurring word combinations because they foster ...
fluency, vocabulary and accuracy
vocabulary, idomaticity and fluency
accuracy, fluency and idiomaticity
accuracy, idiomaticity and vocabulary
Learner corpora are compiled of ...
Language produced by the language learners
Language found in coursebooks
Language found in learner dictionaries
Language produced by the teacher
A method in which there is an interaction between the learner and the corpus is referred to as ...
LSP
DDL
AWL
LCC
Corpora are considered to have a greater potential knowledge of the language than the average native speaker.
True
False
Find the name of a well-known German error-annotated learner corpus:
Dafco
Galko
Falko
Ringo
According to Seidlhofer, texts that learners themselves have produced and which ensure motivation are referred to as ...
Familiar texts
First-hand texts
Familiarized texts
Local texts
For my masters' thesis, I've compiled my own corpus using my classmates' academic papers. Mark the WRONG answer.
I've created a local learner corpus.
I've ended up with a parallel corpus.
My corpus is an ESP corpus.
ONE of these enthusiastic phrases was NOT used in the article (in relation to corpus-aided learning in the classroom):
"Corpora will liberate the creative spirit." (Sinclair 1997)
"The learner is a traveller instead of a researcher." (Bernardini 2000a)
"Every student a Sherlock Holmes!" (Johns 1997)
"Corpora will help you find a job." (Granger 1999)
How does Johns (2002) call materials which could be used both to teach language A to speakers of language B, and language B to speakers of language A?
Interlingual materials
Biliteral language materials
Bilingual materials
Reciprocal language materials
Mark the WRONG answer:
According to Römer, teaching resources in the future should...
... be based on expert rather than apprentice performance.
... disregard learner English and focus on native performance.
... use large amounts of genuine language material.
