D Biber, S Johansson, GN Leech, S Conrad, E Finegan - 2021 - jbe-platform.com
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of …
D Biber - Cambridge University Press google schola, 1998 - books.google.com
This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases …
The idea for this book evolved slowly, emerging from research taking place at several institutions applying different approaches to a single research problem: can discourse …
Corpus linguistics is a research method which draws on authentic language examples, collected and organized into'corpora', or searchable'bodies' of data. The method was …
The author draws on his experience as both a leading applied linguist and a hands-on classroom teacher of English Choice of topics and style of explanations focus on the needs …
* In the final decades of the 20th century, exciting developments beg taking place in grammar teaching and research. First, there was rene interest in an explicit focus on form in …
D Biber, R Reppen - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002 - cambridge.org
Using frequency findings from corpus linguistics, this paper explores the relationship between the information presented in ESL-EFL materials and what is known about actual …
Language is primarily a tool for communication, yet many textbooks still treat English grammar as simply a set of rules and facts to be memorised by rote. This new textbook is …