Language Teachers Working with Text: Increasing Target Language Awareness of Student Teachers with Do-It-Yourself Corpus Research

With language awareness already established as a key concept in language learner and teacher education, ways need to be found to foster language awareness of prospective teachers. It goes without saying that without teacher autonomy and control over the foreign language it is impossible to effectively develop learner autonomy. The present paper reports a study investigating the viability of teacher corpus self-compilation and quiz authoring as a vehicle for developing their target language awareness. In particular, detailed discussions of instructional procedure and learning environments can be found in the article. The study shows how student teachers are trained to work with texts: finding, evaluating, selecting, compiling into a corpus, and analysing and extracting examples into a quiz authoring tool.

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