Customising linguistics: Developing an electronic grammar database for teachers

Customising linguistics: Developing an electronic grammar database for teachers

• Lock, Graham English Dept., City University of Hong Kong
• Tsui, Amy B. M. Dept. of Curriculum Studies, University of Hong Kong

Language Awareness, 9(1), 17-33, 2000

Routledge

2000

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
    • GBF Teaching Methods of Grammar & Rhetoric & Their Outcomes
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching

Computational Linguistics Databases English (Second Language) Foreign Countries Grammar Knowledge Level Language Teachers Metalinguistics Second Language Instruction Second Language Learning Secondary Education Secondary School Teachers Teaching Methods Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

This paper considers issues in customising descriptions of English grammar in the context of creating an electronic database for secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. In developing the database, we have aimed to incorporate insights from functional grammar and corpus linguistics while keeping the information accessible and relevant to teachers familiar only with traditional approaches to grammar. This has involved exploiting the advantages of hypertext, explicitly foregrounding pedagogical concerns and developing a metalanguage that will allow discussion of areas such as transitivity and theme without alienating the teacher-users. We illustrate the kinds of compromises that are necessary in order to match the linguistic information to the needs and existing knowledge of the teacher-users.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 09658416

• 10.1080/09658410008667134

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2010-11-24