Textual Patterns; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Part I; Texts in language study and language education; Word-lists; Concordances; Key words of individual texts; Key words and genres; Part II; General English language teaching; Business and professional communication; English for academic purposes; What counts in current journalism; Counting things in texts you can't count on; References; Name index; Subject index; The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics
Summary
Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematic study of vocabulary and genre, can form the basis for a corpus informed approach to language teaching. The first part of the book gives the reader a strong grounding in the way in which language teachers can use corpus analysis tools (wordlists, concordances, key words) to describe language patterns in general and text patterns in particular. The second section presents a series of
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198) and indexes
