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T1 Word sketches of descriptive modifiers in children's short stories for teacher training in teaching English as a foreign language
A1 Labrador de la Cruz, María Belén
A2 Filologia Inglesa
K1 Lengua inglesa
K1 Word sketches
K1 Descriptive modifiers
K1 Children's stories
K1 Corpus
K1 Young English language learners
K1 Genre
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB [ES] Stories have proved to be an important didactic resource in language teaching; therefore, teacher trainees are often encouraged to design story-based tasks. However, they may find difficulties in identifying the language typically found in children's stories. For this reason, the present paper aims at exploring a relevant feature of this genre, descriptive modifiers, in order to raise student teachers’ genre awareness and prompt them to use high-frequency words and phrases. In this corpus-based study, a number of key elements were first identified, then classified, and finally, their occurrences were analyzed to obtain patterns in their grammatical behavior and an inventory of their most common collocates. SketchEngine was used both to compile the corpus and to retrieve word sketches of each modifier. Gaining more insight into the language of stories can contribute to helping teacher trainees to perceive characteristic language in children-oriented text types and to develop their own storytelling abilities.
PB Elsevier
SN 0898-5898
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/14453
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10612/14453
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 25-abr-2024