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How can a learner corpus help teachers and learners …

Authors: Ježková Šárka

Year: 2019

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	How can a learner corpus help teachers and learners …	This paper presents the process of designing, compiling, and most importantly analysing and using a learner corpus of spoken EAP discourse. The research has been motivated by the fact that for future English language teachers speaking skill is crucial, however, it seems to be rather neglected in schools, and moreover, in the Czech educational system, as in many other countries (McCarthy and Carter 2002), instruction is still based mostly on written language. The corpus of Czech university students’ spoken English comprises about 150,000 words, i.e. transcribed recordings of 114 pairs of first-year students of TEFL Programme from three Czech universities at the beginning of their study, approximately at B2 level of CEFR. It has been compiled to serve many purposes: to find out if Czech students acquire the discourse management devices serving to build up a natural flow of conversation; to offer the language material for the analysis of their use of grammatical structures; to suggest further modifications of the syllabi and the content of courses. On the basis of the findings it can be concluded that the courses in the TEFL study programme should be modified with the aim to teach students specific features of spoken discourse and to improve their communicative competence in speaking English.	learner corpus; spoken discourse; English for academic purposes