Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften Spoken Corpora in Applied Linguistics: 51 (Linguistic Insights)

This volume explores the opportunities that spoken corpora offer and the challenges of research with such corpora. The use and applications of spoken corpora are discussed from the perspective of both language analysis and language pedagogy. Twelve chapters written by corpus linguists analyse an extensive number of spoken corpora based on the oral production of speakers as varied as language learners, users of English as Lingua Franca, native speakers, or speakers of English in academic contexts. This book also highlights the growing emphasis on the use of corpus-based research by examining the implications of corpus findings in educational settings. About the Author The Editors: Mari Carmen Campoy is the Head of the English Studies Department at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, Spain. She is Senior Lecturer in English for Specific Purposes and is a member of LAELA (Lingüística Aplicada a l'Ensenyament de la Llengua Anglesa), a research group currently involved in research projects dealing with Second Language Acquisition. She is currently working in the area of Corpus Linguistics and its applications to the teaching of foreign languages. María José Luzón is Senior Lecturer in English for Specific Purposes at the University of Saragossa, Spain. She has a Ph.D. in English Philology and has published papers on academic and professional discourse and on language teaching and learning in the field of English for Specific Purposes in national and international journals. Her current research interests include corpus-based research of academic and professional discourse and the use of new technologies in English language teaching and learning.