Corpus Perspectives on the Spoken Models used by EFL Teachers

Corpus Perspectives on the Spoken Models used by EFL Teachers illustrates the key principles and practical guidelines for the design and exploitation of corpora for classroom-based research. This book is key reading for all pre- and in-service teachers of EFL as well as researchers in this field.

Angela Farrell is Course Director of the MA in TESOL programme in the Department of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She has extensive international experience as a teacher and teacher educator and is a member of the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), the Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Research Group, the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics (IRAAL) and the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL). Her research interests include teacher classroom discourse, teacher beliefs, teacher language awareness, reflective practice, language variation and change, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and English as an Additional Language (EAL). She has co-written Social Discourses in Teacher Education (2019) and The Reflective Cycle of the Teaching Practicum (forthcoming), and has written several book chapters and journal articles in the area of English language teacher education (ELTE).