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KAA / MKOL1
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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MKOL1
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Title
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Corpus Linguistics I
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
4
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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32 / 34
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0 / 0
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0 / 0
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / 15
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0 / 5
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0 / 0
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
Yes
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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KAA/UDKL
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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KAA/MKOL2
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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The aim of the course is to provide students with the detailed knowledge concerning the methods of linguistic research in the field of corpus linguistics, with the emphasis on real analysis of language corpora and interpretation of findings.
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Requirements on student
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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
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Content
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Corpus linguistics in relation to other approaches to language.
Corpora, their design and structure.
Types of corpora and principles of creating them.
Process of tagging, lemmatization.
Concordancing packages as tools for working with corpora.
British National Corpus and other English language corpora.
Language analysis and interpretation of findings.
Corpus linguistics and second language acquisition.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
BAKER, Paul (ed.). Contemporary corpus linguistics.. London: Continuum, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8264-9610-2.
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Basic:
Biber, Douglas a Randi Reppen. The Cambridge handbook of English corpus linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Basic:
McCarthy, Michael . The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics. New York: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-62263-9.
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Basic:
Scott, Michael. WordSmith Tools Version 6. Liverpool: Lexical Analysis Software, 2012.
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Recommended:
Baker, Paul and Tony McEnery (eds.). Corpora and discourse studies: integrating discourse and corpora. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN 978-1-137-43172-1.
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Recommended:
McEnery, Tony. Corpus-based language studies : an advanced resource book. London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 0-415-28623-9.
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Recommended:
Crawford, William J. and Eniko Csomay. Doing corpus linguistics. ew York ; London : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Recommended:
Ježková, Šárka, Černá, Monika and Jaroslava Ivanová (eds.). Learner Corpora and English Acquisition: A Collection of Studies. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2015.
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Recommended:
Flowerdew, Lynne and Václav Br?ezina. Learner Corpus Research: New Perspectives and Applications. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
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Recommended:
Adolphs, Svenja, Carter, Ronald, A. Spoken corpus linguistics: from monomodal to multimodal. London: Routledge, 2013.
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Recommended:
Jones, Christian, Shelley Byrne and Nicola Halenko. Successful Spoken English: Findings from Learner Corpora. New York: Routledge. 2018.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will be able to work with large English language corpora and on the basis of the findings will be able to describe the language from the point of view of the use of vocabulary, grammar and discourse structure. |
Teaching methods |
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Methods of individual activities
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Assessment methods |
- Home assignment evaluation
- Student performance assessment
- Work-related product analysis
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