Corpus Linguistics for Curriculum Design

This book explores how corpora can be employed to design language curricula both for English as a Foreign/Second Language and for other languages. It is an essential and accesible guide for students and researchers in TESOL, Applied Linguistics, ELT, and materials design, as well as language teachers and curriculum designers.

Graham Burton is an assistant professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy). His main research interests are applications of corpus linguistics to language teaching, materials development, pedagogic grammar, academic writing and multilingualism. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journals, and teaching publications.