1st Edition
Increasing Naturalness in the Language Learning Classroom Towards a Corpus-Informed Principled Communicative Approach
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
Setting the framework: From the traditional Communicative Approach to the Principled Communicative Approach
PART 1
Key findings from corpus linguistics in the service of the Principled Communicative Approach
Chapter 2
What is naturalness
Chapter 3
General features of naturalness (1): Textual-situational well-formedness
Chapter 4
General features of naturalness (2): Frequency of occurrence and multi-word units
Chapter 5
General features of naturalness (3): Patterns
Chapter 6
General features of naturalness (4): Linguistic creativity
Chapter 7
Specific features of naturalness (1): Key elements of written communication
Chapter 8
Specific features of naturalness (2): Key elements of spoken communication
PART 2
Enhancing the toolkit of the Principled Communicative Approach: Corpus-informed teaching materials, pedagogical corpora, activities and model texts
Chapter 9
Corpus-informed textbooks
Chapter 10
Pedagogical corpora (1): Written corpora
Chapter 11
Pedagogical corpora (2): Spoken corpora
Chapter 12
Observing and practising natural language use in pedagogical corpora
Chapter 13
Combining corpus tools and representative model texts
Chapter 14
Putting it all together: Towards a corpus-informed Principled Communicative Approach
Index
Biography
Szilvia Szita is Head of Department of Hungarian Studies at Strasbourg University, France, and the President of KorSzak / CorPed, an international research group on corpus linguistics and pedagogical practices at the University of Pécs, Hungary.
