Increasing Naturalness in the Language Learning Classroom

This volume links corpus research to classroom practice and critically assesses how the integration of a corpus-informed methodology affects pedagogical choices, teaching materials and classroom activities. Focusing on the language classroom, and drawing on examples from English, French, German and Hungarian, this book demonstrates that such methodology is applicable to languages with very different properties.
Drawing on both larger, general and smaller, more specialised corpora, including both spoken and written data, this volume:
presents the key features of natural language according to corpus linguistics, establishing principles and methods to observe and practice natural-sounding language use
suggests the characteristics of a coherent, corpus-informed methodology and contrasts this with existing methodologies
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