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Course: Corpus Linguistics II

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Course title Corpus Linguistics II
Course code KAA/MKOL2
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ježková Šárka, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Process of designing a corpus. Compilation of written corpus of English as a foreign language. Annotation and tagging. Recording, transcribing and editing spoken corpus. Analysis of learner corpora. Interpretation of findings.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to further develop the knowledge and skills which students acquired in the course Corpus linguistics I. It is mainly focused on the creation of a corpus of English as a foreign language: compiling, editing and annotating the corpus, including a spoken and written parts. Subsequently, students' analyses are aimed at the specific features of learner corpora and potential applications of findings to the development of their own communicative competence in English.

Prerequisites
unspecified
KAA/MKOL1

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment, Work-related product analysis, Presentation

active participation (maximum 2 classes can be missed) assignments according to instructions specified in lessons final assessment is based on a practical corpus analysis using electronic concordancers and its presentation
Recommended literature
  • BIBER, D.; CONRAD, S.; REPPEN, R. Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • Biber, Douglas, Connor, Ulla, Upton, Thomas, A. Discourse on the move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007.
  • ČERNÁ, Monika, Jaroslava IVANOVÁ a Šárka JEŽKOVÁ, (ed.). Learner corpora and English acquisition: a collection of studies.. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7395-946-3.
  • Ellis, Rod. Analysing learner language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-431634-3.
  • Gaëtanelle, Gilquin, Susan De Cock and Sylviane Granger (eds.). Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Handbook and CD-ROM.. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2010.
  • Granger, S., Gilquin, G., & Meunier, F. Twenty Years of Learner Corpus Research. Looking Back, Moving Ahead. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2013.
  • Granger, Sylviane, Dagneaoux, E., and Fanny Meunier. (eds.). The International Corpus of Learner English. Handbook and CD-ROM.. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2002.
  • GRANGER, Sylviane, Gaëtanelle GILQUIN a Fanny MEUNIER (ed.). he Cambridge handbook of learner corpus research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-107-04119-6.
  • Hyland, Ken, Chau Meng Huat and Michael Handford (eds.). Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • Ježková, Šárka (ed.). Corpus of Czech Students? Spoken English. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2015.
  • Scott, Michael. WordSmith Tools Version 6. Liverpool: Lexical Analysis Software, 2012.
  • Timmis, Ivor. Corpus linguistics for ELT: research and practice. London: Routledge, 2015. ISBN 978-0-415-74712-7.


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University of Pardubice, date of update: 15.03.2026 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026