Corpora for Advanced Language Learning
On the web there are many elementary lessons for beginners of various languages. There are also dictionaries and other resources for consultation for both students and teachers. However, there are few elearning sites that provide resources for advanced leaning with an explicit approach. These shortcomings appear to be due to the lack of fully analyzed corpora. This paper discusses how the idea of wordfocused extensive reading has been implemented with the use of several corpora. The balanced modern Chinese corpus, the pre-modern Chinese corpus, and the classical Chinese corpus of the Academia Sinica with more than five million words have metadata describing the nature, publication, author, etc. of each article. The segmented words of the texts have been tagged with scores of syntactic categories. Thus our e-learning site (http://elearning.line.sinica.edu) allows the user to input a word for the system to display the sentences in which the word occurs. As the user reads many of these sentences, knowledge of usage of the word is gained in the extensive reading with a focus of a particular word. Teachers who are interested in grammatical analysis of the sentences can have the tag of each word in a sentence displayed. There are also sections for displaying word frequency and other word-related information. In addition, the Tang 300 Poems and Song 300 Lyrics are implemented for teaching literature imagery on the basis of collocating words. Furthermore we also incorporate the British National Corpus for learning English. It is hoped that the corpora will allow us to move elearning of language to an advanced level.
E-learning corpora word-focused extensive learning imagery Chinese
Chin-Chuan Cheng
Taiwan Normal University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
国际会议
2009 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching(2009应用语言学暨语言教学国际研讨会)
台湾
英文
718-729
2009-04-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）