Data-Driven Learning for the Next Generation: Corpora and DDL for Pre-tertiary Learners

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Despite advancements in and availability of corpus software in language classrooms facilitating data-driven learning (DDL), the use of such methods with pre-tertiary learners remains rare. This book specifically explores the affordances of DDL for younger learners, testing its viability with teachers and students at the primary and secondary years of schooling. It features eminent and up-and-coming researchers from Europe, Asia, and Australasia who seek to address best practice in implementing DDL with younger learners, while providing a wealth of empirical findings and practical DDL activities ready for use in the pre-tertiary classroom. Divided into three parts, the volume's first section focuses on overcoming emerging challenges for DDL with younger learners, including where and how DDL can be integrated into pre-tertiary curricula, as well as potential barriers to this integration. It then considers new, cutting-edge innovations in corpora and corpus software for use with younger learners in the second section, before reporting on actual DDL studies performed with younger learners (and/or their teachers) at the primary and secondary levels of education. This book will appeal to post-graduate students, academics and researchers with interests in corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, primary and secondary literacy education, and language and educational technologies. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Editor’s acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword 1 Data-driven learning and younger learners: introduction to the volume Part I Overcoming emerging challenges for DDL with younger learners 2 A case for constructive alignment in DDL: rethinking outcomes, practices, and assessment in (data-driven) language learning 3 Data-driven learning in the secondary classroom: a critical evaluation from the perspective of foreign language didactics 4 Barriers to trainee teachers’ corpus use Part II Applying new DDL methods for younger learners 5 The pedagogic advantage of teenage corpora for secondary school learners 6 The development of a multimodal corpus tool for young EFL learners: a case study on the integration of DDL in teacher education 7 Query complexity and query refinement: using Web search from a corpus perspective with digital natives Part III Infusing DDL into practice – new empirical findings from younger learners 8 Effects of data-driven learning on enhancing the phraseological knowledge of secondary school learners of L2 English 9 “It helps me get ideas on how to use my words”: primary school students’ initial reactions to corpus use in a private tutoring setting 10 Teaching French to young learners through DDL 11 Data-driven learning in a Greek secondary education setting: the implementation of a blended approach 12 The effect of data-driven learning activities on young EFL learners’ processing of English idioms Afterword Index