Google and Reading/Writing English as a Foreign Language
Google is uncontroversially the current most popular commercial search engine which most people regularly use to locate information on the web. Many language learners also use Google to retrieve answers to their queries in the second language, or to find translation equivalents to words and phrases in their mother tongue. Some researchers and practitioners have begun to design language learning activities around the use of Google to help students discover particular expressions or structures from the web and to make generalizations of language use. Although there have been cautions about the reliability of Google frequency counts and worries about the representative issues of the web as a corpus, the ability to offer some examples for the most rarely encountered expressions and the general familiarity of language learners with Google, still make Googlebased web search one of the most powerful and convenient way of learning English as a second language. Phraseology is gaining importance in linguistic research but is still under-represented in the second language learning literature and curricula. In this article, I show how the learning of English phraseology can be achieved by using Google and the web after introducing a method for verifying the phraseological status of a word sequence by Google frequency counts. This approach requires only the learners familiarity with a web browser and Microsoft Excel or equivalent application software.
Google frequency phraseology corpus Excel
Chris Chi-Chiang Shei
Applied Linguistics,School of Arts Swansea University
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
415-425
2009-04-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）