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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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Course content
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Week 1, 15 September: Introduction to the course, basic terms, history of corpus linguistics, types of corpora, Week 2, 22 September: Type, tokens, lemmata, concordances Week 3, 29 September: Frequencies, collocations, colligations Week 4, 6 October: Distribution, wordlists, keywords Week 5 13 October: Coca findings - home studies Week 6, 20 October: CQL Week 7, 27 October: Corpus building Week 8, 3 November: Corpus paper reading Week 9, 10 November: Analysing a corpus Week 10, 17 November: bank holiday - no lesson Week 11, 24 November: Czech National Corpus Week 12, 1 December: Test + presentations Week 13, 8 December: Presentations Week 14, 15 December: Presentations
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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
- Class attendance
- 28 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basic aspects of corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on key concepts, tools, and platforms. Students will gain an overview of how corpus linguistics can be applied to addressing applied linguistic questions in the areas of study, teaching, and research. The course includes work with existing language corpora in both English and Czech, as well as the creation of students' own electronic corpora and their basic linguistic analysis. Attention is also given to the methods and procedures used in the creation and analysis of corpus data. The knowledge and skills acquired in the course may also be applied in pedagogical practice and in the development of teaching materials.
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
Requirements: A mini-research corpus study presentation - present your own created corpus, find frequencies, collocations, and colligations (25 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 (20 per cent of the overall grade) Writing a paper on your corpus (25 per cent of the overall grade). COCA finding - self-study -15 per cent Active attendance (15 per cent of the overall grade). To pass, you need to achieve 70 %. No second changes will be given
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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. Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London / New York: Continuum, 2006.
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Čermák, František. Korpus a korpusová lingvistika. Praha: Karlova univerzita, 2017.
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Danielle Barth, Danielle Barth, Stefan Schnell. Understanding Corpus Linguistics. Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9780367219628.
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Hunston, Susan. Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Reppen, Randi. Using Corpora in the Language Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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