摘要
I begin this paper with a brief survey of how frequency — in particular, frequency of words — had a role in language learning in the days before electronic corpora existed. Then I consider how the "corpus revolution" made frequency information available in a totally unprecedented way from the 1960s onward. Finally I discuss the usefulness of frequency to the language learner and teacher, and some new directions in applied linguistics favourable to frequency.
I begin this paper with a brief survey of how frequency -- in particular, frequency of words -- had a role in language learning in the days before electronic corpora existed. Then I consider how the ＂corpus revolution＂ made frequency information available in a totally unprecedented way from the 1960s onward. Finally I discuss the usefulness of frequency to the language learner and teacher, and some new directions in applied linguistics favourable to frequency.
出处
《外语教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2011年第1期3-20,共18页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
