ENG381 Corpus Linguistics

[3–0, 3 cr.]

This course takes a computer-based methodological approach to the study of authentic patterns in language use and their contextualization and applicability to language teaching and learning. Linguistic variations in databank of written and/or spoken texts will be explored through the analysis of concordances, frequencies, collocations and lexical bundles. The major aspects of corpus design, tools and types are also covered in this course.

Prerequisites: ENG102 Academic English II