Baker, W., & Huttner, J. (2011). Some 'friendly' confusion: SCOTS and ELF. ELT Journal, 65(2), 183-186.
摘要:Offering a critical response to "Teaching English as a friendly language: Lessons from the SCOTS corpus" (Anderson and Corbett, 2010), Baker and Huttner argue that Anderson and Corbett have "seriously misrepresented English as a lingua franca research, as well as presenting potentially confusing information on how to use corpora in classrooms." Baker and Huttner note that while it is beneficial to have corpus data on as many regional varieties of English as possible, they are "left with serious doubts as to the proclaimed benefits of the SCOTS corpus in making students internationally 'friendly'." Adapted from the source document
关键词:applied linguistics, English as a second/foreign language instruction, discourse analysis/text linguistics, corpus linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, English as an International Language, English as a Second Language Instruction, Cross Cultural Communication, Language Variation, English as a Second Language Teaching Materials, English as a Second Language Teaching Methods