Corpus research applications in second language teaching: a look into corpus-informed materials development / Norwati Roslim … [et al.]

Roslim, Norwati and Abdullah, Muhammad Hakimi Tew and Aziz, Anealka and Nimehchisalem, Vahid and Almuddin, Azhani (2020) Corpus research applications in second language teaching: a look into corpus-informed materials development / Norwati Roslim … [et al.]. International Journal of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics (IJMAL), 4 (2). pp. 15-37. ISSN 2600-7266

Abstract

Numerous corpus studies have suggested that teaching materials design could greatly benefit from the empirical information about language use provided by corpus linguistics. In spite of the awareness that corpus-based research can offer valuable insights for materials development, still relatively small number of studies report on the practical applications of corpus data for teaching materials development. There is no clear guideline or framework on how corpora and corpus studies could assist in developing teaching materials. Hence, this study focusses on one grammatical item which poses problems to Malaysian learners, that is, prepositions. The objectives are (i) to identify prepositions in the British National Corpus as a reference corpus and the descriptions offered by linguists and grammarians as a reference grammar, and (ii) to provide a framework to use reference corpus, reference grammar and corpus-based research, as a resource for developing materials in the teaching of prepositions. In order to meet the objectives, content analysis was used as the methodology throughout this study. The findings showed that reference corpus, reference grammar and corpus-based research could be used systematically as guidance to develop corpus-informed materials. It is hoped that this contribution of knowledge could have an impact on second language learning-teaching.

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Roslim, Norwati
norwati@uitm.edu.my
Abdullah, Muhammad Hakimi Tew
muhammad_hakimi@uitm.edu.my
Aziz, Anealka
anealka@uitm.edu.my
Nimehchisalem, Vahid
vahid@upm.edu.my@gmail.com
Almuddin, Azhani
azhaniazhani@yahoo.com
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > Language and languages
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > Language and education
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Academy of Language Studies
Journal or Publication Title: International Journal of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics (IJMAL)
UiTM Journal Collections: UiTM Journal > International Journal of Modern Language and Applied Linguistics (IJMAL)
ISSN: 2600-7266
Volume: 4
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 15-37
Keywords: corpus research, corpus-informed materials, second language teaching
Date: June 2020
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/42793
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