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In:Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honor of Doug Biber
Edited by Viviana Cortes and Eniko Csomay
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 66] 2015
► pp. 99–122

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Corpora, context, and language teachers

Teacher involvement in a local learner corpus project

Published online: 14 January 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.66.05urz
The language teacher is an often neglected figure in learner corpora projects, including those whose aim is to apply corpus findings to second language pedagogy. Even though teacher mediation is critical to the potential success of corpus-informed instructional practices, the literature seldom addresses specific ways to get classroom teachers involved in the process of designing, collecting, and exploring learner corpus data. This chapter describes a learner corpus project in which the participation of local English language teachers was actively recruited throughout the project. The author describes ways in which teachers were involved in the project and illustrates the benefits of such a process with examples from a corpus-based study he conducted in the same local language teaching context. Keywords: Learner corpus; teacher involvement; contextualization
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