Corpus to curriculum: Developing word lists for adult learners of Welsh

Knight, Dawn; Fitzpatrick, Tess; Morris, Steve; Tovey-Walsh, Bethan; Prosser, Helen; Davies, Emyr

doi:10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100052

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Corpus to curriculum: Developing word lists for adult learners of Welsh

Dawn Knight

, Tess Fitzpatrick

, Steve Morris

, Bethan Tovey-Walsh, Helen Prosser, Emyr Davies

Applied Corpus Linguistics, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Start page: 100052

Swansea University Authors: Tess Fitzpatrick , Steve Morris , Bethan Tovey-Walsh

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100052

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The launch of a language's first comprehensive general corpus promises a sea-change in teaching and learning resources. Effective transition from corpus to classroom is not necessarily straightforward, though; expert and end-user input is essential for the potential of the corpus resource to be...

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Corpus to curriculum: Developing word lists for adult learners of Welsh

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