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Costas Gabrielatos’ Personal Website

 

I work within linguistics and applied linguistics (or is it linguistics applied?), mainly using a corpus-based approach (or is it corpus-driven?). In previous lives I worked in English language teaching and language teacher education (or was it training?)

 

This page works as a hub, with a thematic index to my publications, conference papers, edited contributions to online discussions, language teacher education materials, and the odd unpublished rant.

 

The index only lists what is freely available online. For a full list of publications go here.

Bio note and CV

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Thematic index

 

Corpora in language research and teaching

Teaching language: grammar, lexis, pronunciation, discourse

Teaching communication skills and strategies

Language teaching methodology

Teacher education, training and development

Coursebook/materials evaluation and adaptation

The use of the mother tongue (L1) in ELT

Language exams

Assorted rants

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Website updated: 10 April 2008

 

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papers and materials

 

 

 

corpora in language research and teaching

 

Selecting query terms to build a specialised corpus from a restricted-access database

 

Corpora and language teaching: Just a fling or wedding bells?

 

Grammar, grammars and intuitions in ELT: A second opinion

 

Conditional Sentences: ELT typology and corpus evidence

(Abstract and slides)

 

With Simone Sarmento. Central modals in an aviation corpus: Frequency and distribution

 

With Tony McEnery. Epistemic modality in MA dissertations

 

Elliptical and discontinuous if-conditionals: Co-text, context, inference and intuitions

(Abstract and slides)

 

If-conditionals as modality attractors  

(Abstract and slides)

 

If-conditionals as modal colligations: A corpus-based investigation

 

With Paul Baker. Representation of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers: Towards a corpus-based analysis (Abstract, and PowerPoint slides)

 

With Paul Baker. Representation of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers: Towards a corpus-based comparison of the stance of tabloids and broadsheets

(Abstract and slides)

 

With Paul Baker and Tony McEnery. Using collocation analysis to reveal the construction of minority groups: The case of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press. (Abstract and slides)

 

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teaching Language:

Grammar, Lexis, Pronunciation and Discourse

 

Minding our Ps

(A framework for grammar teaching)

 

Is this the way to the RSA?

 

Grammar, grammars and intuitions in ELT: A second opinion

 

Teaching the expression of time: A concise framework

 

Inference: Procedures and implications for TEFL. Part 1: Background

 

Inference: Procedures and implications for TEFL. Part 2: Examples and teaching implications

 

Inference: Procedures and implications for ELT (unified and revised version)

 

Materials evaluation and adaptation: A case study of grammar teaching

 

Materials evaluation and adaptation: A case study of pronunciation teaching

 

Collocations: Pedagogical implications, and their treatment in pedagogical materials

 

Grammar: Nature and teaching

 

The adjective quiz

 

Teaching about language

(Selected posts from an online discussion, published in TESL-EJ)

 

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teaching communication skills and strategies

 

EFL writing: Product and process

 

Receptive skills with young learners

 

Teaching communication and interaction strategies: An action research project

 

Learning how to fish: Fostering fluency and independence

 

Reading loud and clear: Reading aloud in ELT

 

Teaching reading and listening for exam preparation

 

FCE listening: Format, focus and procedure

 

Answer with a question

 

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language teaching methodology

 

Shopping at the ELT supermarket: Principled decisions and practices

 

Corpora and language teaching: Just a fling or wedding bells?

 

My methodology

 

How much is that methodology in the window?

 

A question of function: Teacher questions in the EFL classroom

(Abstract and OHP slides)

 

ELT Methodology

 

Grammar: Nature and teaching

 

Teaching about language

(Selected posts from online discussions, published in TESL-EJ)

 

The role of the teacher, the role of the learner, the role of technologies: Finding balance in the classroom 

(Selected posts from a TESL-L online discussion, published in TESL-EJ)

 

A Question of definitions: An investigation through the definitions and practices of communicative and task-based approaches

(Selected posts from a TESL-L online discussion, published in TESL-EJ)

 

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Teacher Education, Training and Development

 

Standards and development in ELT

 

The weight of words

 

More than ‘mere’ language teachers?

 

My methodology

 

The shape of the language teacher

 

Shopping at the ELT supermarket: Principled decisions and practices

 

How much is that methodology in the window?

 

Discerning reality: Lesson observation as research

 

ELT methodology

 

Grammar: Nature and teaching

 

Teaching about language (Selected posts from an online discussion, published in TESL EJ)

 

The "customer service" model of education

(Selected posts from online discussions, published in TESL-EJ)

 

A question of function: Teacher questions in the EFL classroom

(Abstract and OHP slides)

 

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coursebook/materials evaluation and adaptation

 

The Coursebook as a flexible tool

(Slides)

 

Materials evaluation and adaptation: A case study of grammar teaching

 

Materials evaluation and adaptation: A case study of pronunciation teaching

 

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the use of the mother tongue in ELT

 

Translation impossibilities: Problems and opportunities for TEFL

 

L1 use in ELT: Not a skeleton, but a bone of contention. A response to Prodromou

 

 

language exams

 

Teaching reading and listening for exam preparation

 

FCE listening: Format, focus and procedure

 

Greek results in Cambridge ESOL CPE exams: Brief analysis and explanations

 

Greek results in the fce and cpe exams: Explanations and solutions

 

 

assorted ranTs

 

The language learner in Acquisitionland, or through the black box

 

Teacher training courses: A different perspective

(If all professions had adopted the ELT certification mentality …)

 

Trained?

(Teacher training: a formative personal experience)

 

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LINKS

 

 

This section does not aim or pretend to be comprehensive; rather, it contains links to comprehensive websites, and other websites/pages I have found useful. There are also links to the person/group maintaining the webpages.

 

Please let me know if you think there is a site/page I should add, or if you discover any dead links.

 

 

 

CORPORA

IN LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

 

 

Comprehensive websites

 

Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists

Maintained by David Lee (Nagoya University of Commerce and Business)

 

Links to Corpus Linguistics and related sites

Maintained by Przemek Kaszubski (Adam Mickiewicz University)

 

ICAME

 

Gateway to Corpus Linguistics

Maintained by Yvonne Breyer (Macquarie University)

 

Statistical NLP and corpus-based computational linguistics:

An annotated list of resources

Maintained by Stanford University

 

Corpus Linguistics

Maintained by the University of Sussex

 

ICT 4 ELT

Maintained by James Thomas (Masaryk University)

 

Corpus linguistics, translation, and language learning

Maintained by Federico Zanettin

 

Corpora - Resources

Maintained by Wirote Aroonmanakun

 

Corpora4Learning

Maintained by Sabine Braun (University of Surrey)

 

Corpora and Corpus-based Computational Linguistics

Maintained by Manuel Barbera

 

Text Corpora and Corpus Linguistics

Maintained by Michael Barlow (university of Auckland)

 

 

Bibliographies

 

Bibliography of (English) Corpus Linguistics

Maintained by Przemek Kaszubski (Adam Mickiewicz University)

 

ICAME Searchable Bibliography

Maintained by ICAME (initially by Bengt Altenberg)

 

Corpora in ELT

Maintained by Nigel Harwood (University of Essex)

 

Learner Corpus Bibliography

Maintained by the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université Catholique de Louvain

 

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Miscellaneous

(corpora, tools, tutorials, links)

 

Well-known and influential corpora: A survey

Compiled by Richard Xiao (Lancaster University)

 

Systematic Dictionary of Corpus Linguistics

 

Links to Corpus/NLP/LE Related Websites

Maintained by Scott Piao (Lancaster University)

 

Corpuseye

Online corpus tools, and links to other corpus-related sites

Maintained by the University of Southern Denmark

 

Concordancing

Maintained by James Thomas (Masaryk University)

 

Corpus Linguistics

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

CoCo (Concordancer and Collocations)

Maintained by Howard Chen (National Taiwan Normal University)

 

Corpus Tutorial

Online tutorial and resources for language educators.

Maintained by the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER), Pennsylvania State University

 

Computational Approaches to Collocation

Maintained by Stefan Evert (University of Osnabrück)

 

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