An under-exploited resource: using the BNC for exploring the nature of language learning

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An under-exploited resource: using the BNC for exploring the nature of language learning

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Pages:: 151–166

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401203791_010

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At a time when the use of the world wide web as a source of data for linguistic description is beginning to be explored by corpus linguists, this paper considers insights which can be gained from an existing structured corpus, and possible implications for our understanding of the nature of language learning. The British National Corpus (BNC) is used as a source of data to explore semantic relations which may underlie certain multi-word sequences identified in the corpus. The analysis focuses on collocations containing verbs or amplifiers. It is suggested that the richness of the data in the BNC is still somewhat under-exploited for the description of English, and for exploring the nature of language learning and teaching.

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Corpus Linguistics and the Web

Series: Language and Computers, Volume: 59 and Language and Computers, Volume: 59

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401203791

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2007

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- Languages and Linguistics
  - Applied Linguistics

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