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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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
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
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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
Tags mzok, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
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.
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