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Lecturer(s)
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Peldová Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Haupt Jaromír, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Madsen Richard, M.A., Ph.D.
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Course content
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Syllabus Week 1, 18th September: Introduction to the course, basic terms, history of corpus linguistics, types of corpora, Week 2, 25th September: Type, tokens, lemmata, concordances Week 3, 2nd October: Frequencies, collocations, colligations Week 4, 9th October: Distribution, wordlists, keywords Week 5 16th October: Coca findings- home studies Week 6, 23rd October: Creating a corpus Week 7, 30th October: CQL Week 8, 6th November: CQL Week 9, 13th November: Czech National corpus Week 10, 20th November: Learner corpus Week 11, 27th November: Test, presentations 5- people Week 12, 4 th December: Presentations - 5 people Week 13, 11th December: Presentations - 5 people Week 14, 19th December: Presentations -5 people Part-time students 7.10. - Introduction 27.10. Type/ tokens/ frequencies 1.12. CQL Language 16.12. Creating a corpus/ Czech National corpus Presentations and the test will take place during the exam period.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing), Active metods (simulation, situational contingency methods, drama,acting, namagerial acting ), Practicum, E-learning, Task-based study method, Students' self-study
- Contacts hours
- 28 hours per semester
- Preparation for credit
- 28 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language)
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for formative assessments
- 10 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the subject is to introduce students to the fundamental aspects of corpus linguistics. Students will work with the already existing corpora, plus they learn how to create corpora for their teaching, learning, or researching purposes. Students will further get acquainted with basic tools, platforms and methods used when creating and analysing corpora. Each seminar includes a theoretical and practical part, where the students first learn about the given issue/concept and then they apply their knowledge in practice.
Acquired competencies: Knowledge of corpora, the ability to create a corpus and to use corpora while learning, teaching or researching ( especially in bachelor theses).
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Prerequisites
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Threshold B2 level of English. The subject is taught in English.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student's performance analysis, Student's linguistic performance analysis, Oral presentation of self-study, Written assignment, Test
A mini-research corpus study presentation - present your own created corpus, find frequencies, collocations, and colligations (35 per cent of the overall grade); the presentation does not mean just clicking on word sketch and presenting the information in this tool; one must dig more in the corpus to identify a notable finding about the corpus. An example will be given. A part of the presentation is an active preparation via a Google document, where the teacher will see the progress of the research and will guide the student throughout the whole process. Passing a theoretical test at the end of the semester (35 per cent of the overall grade) Doing homework (20 per cent of the overall grade). Attendance (10 per cent of the overall grade). To pass, you need to achieve 70 %.
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Recommended literature
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Baker, Paul, Andrew Hardie, and Tony McEnery. A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
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Baker, Paul, Costas Gabrielatos, and Tony McEnery. Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The Representation of Islam in the British Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Baker, Paul. Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics. Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
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Baker, Paul. Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London / New York: Continuum, 2006.
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Čermák, František et al. InterCorp: exploring a multilingual corpus. Praha: NLN, 2010.
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Čermák, František. Korpus a korpusová lingvistika. Praha: Karlova univerzita, 2017.
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Gablasova, Dana, Vaclav Brezina, and Tony McEnery. Collocations in Corpus-Based Language Learning Research: Identifying, Comparing, and Interpreting the Evidence. Language Learning, 67(S1). 2017.
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Garside, Roger, Geoffrey Leech, and Tony McEnery. Corpus Annotation. Harlow: Longman, 1997.
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Hunston, Susan. Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Love, Robbie, Clair Dembry, Andrew Hardie, Vaclav Brezina, and Tony McEnery. The Spoken BNC2014: designing and building a spoken corpus of everyday conversations.. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 22:3. 2017.
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McEnery, Tony and Andrew Hardie. Corpus linguistics: method, theory and practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Reppen, Randi. Using Corpora in the Language Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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