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TY - JOUR
T1 - Expressions of gratitude in corpus and DCT data : vocabulary, formulaic sequences, and pedagogy.
AU - Schauer, Gila
AU - Adolphs, Svenja
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Our study explores the similarities and differences between a discourse completion task (DCT) and corpus data and discusses potential implications for using the two in a pedagogic context. The DCT has traditionally been used an instrument for the study of interlanguage pragmatics while both spoken and written corpora have mainly been used to facilitate language description. Corpora also have a place in the language-teaching context as they can provide the learner with patterns of language use in social interactions some of which are not open to intuition. By contrasting native speakers’ expressions of gratitude elicited by a DCT with those found in a five million word corpus of spoken English, we examine the advantages and disadvantages of both data sets with regard to the language-teaching context. The results suggest that a combined use of both instruments might aid the teaching of formulaic sequences in the classroom.
AB - Our study explores the similarities and differences between a discourse completion task (DCT) and corpus data and discusses potential implications for using the two in a pedagogic context. The DCT has traditionally been used an instrument for the study of interlanguage pragmatics while both spoken and written corpora have mainly been used to facilitate language description. Corpora also have a place in the language-teaching context as they can provide the learner with patterns of language use in social interactions some of which are not open to intuition. By contrasting native speakers’ expressions of gratitude elicited by a DCT with those found in a five million word corpus of spoken English, we examine the advantages and disadvantages of both data sets with regard to the language-teaching context. The results suggest that a combined use of both instruments might aid the teaching of formulaic sequences in the classroom.
KW - Language patterns
KW - Corpus linguistics
KW - Data collection
KW - Second language instruction
KW - Language teaching methods
KW - Lexicon
U2 - 10.1016/j.system.2005.09.003
DO - 10.1016/j.system.2005.09.003
M3 - Journal article
VL - 34
SP - 119
EP - 134
JO - System
JF - System
SN - 0346-251X
IS - 1
ER -