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Enriching Writing Instruction with Corpus Linguistics:

Enriching Writing Instruction with Corpus Linguistics:. How to Turn a Writing Student into a Language Researcher in One Easy Lesson Delys W. Snyder, Ph.D. Brigham Young University. Two stories about rules. Sentence Variety Pronouns. Ramifications of Learning These Rules.

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Enriching Writing Instruction with Corpus Linguistics:

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  1. Enriching Writing Instruction with Corpus Linguistics: How to Turn a Writing Student into a Language Researcher in One Easy Lesson Delys W. Snyder, Ph.D. Brigham Young University

  2. Two stories about rules Sentence Variety Pronouns

  3. Ramifications of Learning These Rules • Remember rule, forget reason • Unlearn rule later • Write weird sentences

  4. Use Exemplar-based Research to Learn and Teach about Language • Form a collection of good examples • Ask a question about language (or grammar or writing) • Research the examples • Copy the good writers

  5. Corpus of Well-Written Essays • Collect essays • Ask Research Questions • Look through example essays • Generalize for the genre

  6. Electronic Corpora • Already collected electronically • Easy to ask certain questions • Searchable (and very fast) • Carefully constructed to be representative

  7. COCA • Corpus.byu.edu • Free • Great interface • 410 million words, 20 million added yearly • Different registers represented: • Fiction • Magazines • Newspapers • Academic • Spoken

  8. How is COCA better than Google? • Edited, published American English (except for spoken) • Accurate counts • Divided by register

  9. Issues from Get It Write • The reason is because/The reason is that • Criteria as singular or plural • Media as singular or plural • Regardless/irregardless • Loan/lend [loan].[v*] • Whom • Sneaked/snuck • Have proved/have proven • Indexes/indices • Different from/different than

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