Syllabus
notions of information structure focus-background given-new topic-comment prosody, intonation word stress, phrase stress, utterance-level stress phonetic correlates of phonological stress/accent deaccenting boundary tones
ToBI prosodic encoding of focus new focus contrastive focus prosodic encoding of givenness discourse givenness other types of givenness prosodic encoding of topic plain topic contrastive topic
Annotation
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with various applications of language corpora in foreign language pedagogy. The issues covered include an introduction to a range of corpus resources and tools available in the Internet, with a special emphasis on resources and tools designed specifically for language teaching.
Students will learn about the methods of corpus analyses relevant for language instruction as well as tool functionalities that facilitate them. The course will also present ways of using corpus-derived linguistic information for teaching vocabulary, phraseology, grammar and discourse organization, as well as methods of working with corpora with language learners (so-called data-driven learning).
The course will also discuss the application of corpora for syllabus development for teaching specialized languages. Students will compile their own mini-corpora and learn how to analyse them for pedagogic purposes.
Examples of applications of corpora will be drawn from the practice of teaching English and Polish as foreign languages.
