AN EVALUATION OF INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS' APPROACHES TO CORPUS INVESTIGATION
AN EVALUATION OF INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS' APPROACHES TO CORPUS INVESTIGATION
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对中级学生语料库调查方法的评估
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
T. Miceli
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作者：
Claire Kennedy;T. Miceli
本文介绍了我们在澳大利亚格里菲斯大学使用自己编制的当代书面意大利语语料库(CWIC)进行中级教学的经验。在概述了语料库的设计和所采用的培训方法之后，我们将重点放在对学生调查效果的初步评估上。关于在语言学习中利用语料库可以做些什么，已经写了很多：不同类型的语料库可以做出什么样的发现。关于学习者实际上是如何进行调查的，相对较少。由于我们打算让我们的学生通过使用基于网络的CWIC版本而从课堂使用发展到独立工作，我们一直在试图了解他们在没有老师的情况下从这个语料库中提取信息的成功程度。我们最初的研究强调了这一过程的复杂性和所需的专门技能。我们发现，在观察和推理方面缺乏严谨性在很大程度上导致了出现的问题，对常见陷阱和避免它们的技术的无知也是造成这些问题的主要原因。因此，我们在论文结束时概述了我们的学徒计划的拟议变化，旨在更好地装备学生成为“语料库研究人员”。
This paper reports on our experience in using a corpus of our own compilation, Contemporary Written Italian Corpus (CWIC), in teaching intermediate students at Griffith University in Australia. After an overview of the corpus design and the training approach adopted, we focus on our initial evaluation of the effectiveness of the students' investigations. Much has been written on what can be done with corpora in language learning: what kinds of discoveries can be made with different types of corpora. There is relatively little on how learners actually go about investigations. Since we intend for our students to progress from classroom use to independent work as a result of using a Web-based version of CWIC, we have been seeking to understand how successful they are at extracting information from this corpus in the absence of a teacher. Our initial study highlighted the complexity of the process and the specialized skills required. We found that lack of rigor in observation and reasoning contributed greatly to the problems that arose, as did ignorance of common pitfalls and techniques for avoiding them. We, therefore, conclude the paper with an outline of proposed changes to our apprenticeship program, aimed at better equipping the students as "corpus researchers."