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1、Unit10Corporaandlanguagestudies2CorporaandlanguageeducationRichardXiao,TonyMcEneryLancasterUniversity(2005manuscript)Abstract:Corpuslinguisticsasamethodologyoflinguisticsresearchhasgainedsuchprominenceovertimethatcorporahavebeenusedextensivelyinnearlyallbranchesoflinguistics.Thisarticleexp
2、lores,throughaseriesofstudiesundertakensofar,thepotentialusesofcorpusdatainoneoftheseareasClanguageeducation.Wewilldiscussawiderangeofissuesrelatedtousingcorporainlanguagepedagogy,includingsyllabusdesign,materialsdevelopment,data-drivenlearner(DLL),teachinglanguageforspecificpurposes,langu
3、agetesting,teachertrainingaswellaslearnercorpusandinterlanguageanalysis.Keywords:corpora,languagepedagogy,data-drivenlearning,learnercorpus,interlanguageanalysis1.IntroductionThecorpus-basedapproachtolinguisticsandlanguageeducationhasgainedprominenceoverthepastfourdecades,particularlysince
4、themid-1980s.Thisisbecausecorpusanalysiscanbeilluminating‘invirtuallyallbranchesoflinguisticsorlanguagelearning’(Leech1997:9;cf.alsoBiberetal1998:11).Oneofthestrengthsofcorpusdataliesinitsempiricalnature,whichpoolstogethertheintuitionsofagreatnumberofspeakersandmakeslinguisticanalysismoreo
5、bjective(McEneryandWilson2001:103).Nowadays,corporahavehadsuchastronginfluenceonrecentreferencepublishing(atleastforEnglish,e.g.Sinclairetal1990;Francisetal1996,1998;Biberetal1999)that‘evenpeoplewhohaveneverheardofacorpusareusingtheproductofcorpus-basedinvestigation’(Hunston2002:96).Hunsto
6、nsummarizesthechangesbroughtaboutbycorporatodictionariesandotherreferencebooksintermsoffive‘emphases’:anemphasisonfrequency,anemphasisoncollocationandphraseology,anemphasisonvariation,anemphasisonlexisingrammarandanemphasisonauthenticity(ibid).Inadditiontoreferencepublishing,corporahavebee
7、nusedextensivelyinnearlyallbranchesoflinguisticsincluding,forexample,lexicographicandlexicalstudies,grammaticalstudies,languagevariationstudies,contrastiveandtranslationstudies,diachronicstudies,semantics,pragmatics,stylistics,sociolinguistics,discourseanalysi
