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TY - JOUR
T1 - "Nice things get said"
T2 - corpus evidence and the national literacy strategy
AU - Sealey, Alison
AU - Thompson, Paul
PY - 2006/4
Y1 - 2006/4
N2 - The article compares evidence from an electronic corpus of texts written for a child audience with specifications in the National Literacy Strategy. The concepts and terminology associated with corpus linguistics are introduced and explained, and the research study from which the findings derive is summarised. Results of the analysis are presented in sections on word frequencies, contractions, word forms and synonyms. The article concludes with an indication of the implications of the findings for education policy and classroom practice.
AB - The article compares evidence from an electronic corpus of texts written for a child audience with specifications in the National Literacy Strategy. The concepts and terminology associated with corpus linguistics are introduced and explained, and the research study from which the findings derive is summarised. Results of the analysis are presented in sections on word frequencies, contractions, word forms and synonyms. The article concludes with an indication of the implications of the findings for education policy and classroom practice.
KW - Corpus linguistics
KW - Key Stage 2
KW - National Literacy Strategy
KW - Primary
KW - Vocabulary
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9345.2006.415.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9345.2006.415.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 40
SP - 22
EP - 28
JO - Literacy
JF - Literacy
SN - 1741-4350
IS - 1
ER -