Using online corpora to develop students' writing skills  

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Gilmore, Alex

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 63 no. 4 (Oct. 2009), page 363-372 .
Topik: online; online corpora; writing; ELT; COBUILD Corpus
Fulltext: 2009.4.363.full.pdf (110.08KB)

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Large corpora such as the British National Corpus and the COBUILD Corpus and Collocations Sampler are now accessible, free of charge, online and can be usefully incorporated into a process writing approach to help develop students’ writing skills. This article aims to familiarize readers with these resources and to show how they can be usefully exploited in the redrafting stages of writing to both minimize the teachers’ workload and encourage greater cognitive processing of errors. An exploratory investigation comparing the use of these two online corpora in Japanese university writing classes is then described. This suggests that the participants in the study were able to signi?cantly improve the naturalness of their writing after only a 90-minute training session and that the majority of students found these online resources bene?cial, although there was a marked preference for the COBUILD Corpus and Collocations Sampler.

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