Progressives, patterns, pedagogy : a corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics
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Progressives, patterns, pedagogy : a corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics
（Studies in corpus linguistics, v. 18）
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2005
- : Hb
Available at 34 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-324) and index
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Description
This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest existing corpora of spoken British English and from a small corpus of EFL textbook texts highlights numerous differences between actual language use and textbook language concerning the distribution of progressives, their preferred contexts, favoured functions, and typical lexical-grammatical patterns. On the basis of these differences, a number of pedagogical implications are derived, the integration of which then leads to a first draft of an innovative concept of teaching progressives - a concept which responds to three key criteria in pedagogical description: typicality, authenticity, and communicative utility. The analysis also demonstrates that many existing accounts of the progressive are inappropriate in several respects and that not enough attention is being paid to lexical-grammatical relations.! Winner of the "Wissenschaftspreis Hannover 2006" for outstanding research monographs !
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. 1. Introduction: A need to take stock of progressives
- 3. 2. The theoretical basis of the study: Corpora, contexts, didactics
- 4. 3. Progressives in theoretical studies and grammars of English
- 5. 4. Progressives in spoken British English
- 6. 5. Progressive teaching(?): Progressives in the German EFL classroom
- 7. 6. Progressives in real spoken English and in "school" English: A comparison
- 8. 7. Pedagogical implications: True facts, textbooks, teaching
- 9. 8. Conclusions: Corpus, practice, theory
- 10. Notes
- 11. References
- 12. Index
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