A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners. Robert Poole.

Authors

  • Sharon Hartle University of Verona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2020.i15.644

Keywords:

freely accessible digital corpora, English language learning, classroom-based activities, concordance searches, grammatical and lexical pattern analysis, socio-cultural language analysis, corpus construction

Abstract

Review of A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners, by Robert Poole.

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Published

2020-06-01