Stealing a march on collocation : Deriving extended
collocations from full text for student analysis and synthesis

C 2015

Stealing a march on collocation : Deriving extended collocations from full text for student analysis and synthesis

THOMAS, James Edward

Basic information

Original name

Stealing a march on collocation : Deriving extended collocations from full text for student analysis and synthesis

Authors

THOMAS, James Edward (36 Australia, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Amsterdam, Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-Driven Learning, p. 85-108, 24 pp. Studies in Corpus Linguistics, vol. 69, 2015

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00085439

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-90-272-0377-9

Keywords in English

corpus; collocation; word templates; topic trails

Abstract

V originále

Full text affords language learners many opportunities to observe a wide range of linguistic features whose typicality they can ascertain through corpus searches. The particular features investigated in this chapter revolve around the collocations of key words in texts. Given that knowing a collocation in no way guarantees its correct use, a procedure referred to as Collocation Plus has been developed in which learners explore the lexical and grammatical environments of collocations in the contexts in which they meet them. This is an important process in making receptive vocabulary productive. Learners may then formalise their findings into ‘word templates’ which are then available for production. This work combines some recent findings in linguistics, language acquisition and pedagogy to help learners produce language that is more accurate, fluent, idiomatic and sophisticated, whilst developing their autonomy in using the resources available and raising their consciousness of the processes involved.

Citovat

THOMAS, James Edward. Stealing a march on collocation : Deriving extended collocations from full text for student analysis and synthesis. In Lenko-Szymanksa, L., Boulton, A. Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-Driven Learning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015, p. 85-108. Studies in Corpus Linguistics, vol. 69. ISBN 978-90-272-0377-9.

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THOMAS, James Edward. Stealing a march on collocation : Deriving extended collocations from full text for student analysis and synthesis. In Lenko-Szymanksa, L., Boulton, A. \textit{Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-Driven Learning}. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015, p.~85-108. Studies in Corpus Linguistics, vol. 69. ISBN~978-90-272-0377-9.

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