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Corpus to curriculum: Developing word lists for adult learners of Welsh
Applied Corpus Linguistics, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Start page: 100052
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Tess Fitzpatrick , Steve Morris, Bethan Tovey-Walsh
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The launch of a language's first comprehensive general corpus promises a sea-change in teaching and learning resources. Effective transition from corpus to classroom is not necessarily straightforward, though; expert and end-user input is essential for the potential of the corpus resource to be...
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