Discovering English with Sketch Engine
A corpus-based approach
报告人：Professor James Thomas
时间：11月5日（星期四）15:00 p.m.
地点：文科楼8楼语料库室

报告简介：
In this session,participants will be introduced to the nature of corpus study with an emphasis on its relevance and application to the study and teaching of English as a foreign or second language.
One of the key issues in ensuring that stakeholders grasp and perhaps embrace corpus data as a resource for language study,is an understanding of the role of patterns in language in contrast with rules.
Sketch Engine is a not only a corpus querying tool,but it houses many easily accessible corpora in many languages,as well as software for making one’s own corpora.
Participants will be shown a variety of corpora,of search types that reveal various types of patterns that include collocation,colligation,syntagms,bundles,and if time permits,a demonstration of the steps in DIY corpora.

报告人简介：
James Thomas,thomas@phil.muni.cz

James is the head of teacher training at the Department of English and American Studies,Faculty of Arts,Masaryk University in Czech Republic.In addition to standard teacher training courses,he is active in e-learning,corpus work.In 2010 he and his co-author were awarded the ELT on for innovation in ELT publishing for their book,Global Issues in ELT.He is chairman of the corpus SIG of EUROCALL,and a committee member of the biennial conference,Teaching and Language Corpora.His research investigates the application of current British linguistics to the pedagogical use of corpora,and training future teachers to include corpus findings in their lesson preparation and directly with students.In 2015,he published the book,Discovering English with Sketch Engine.bit.ly/versatile_deske