This volume explores the opportunities that spoken corpora offer and the challenges of research
with such corpora. The use and applications of spoken corpora are discussed from the
perspective of both language analysis and language pedagogy. Twelve chapters written by corpus
linguists analyse an extensive number of spoken corpora based on the oral production of
speakers as varied as language learners users of English as Lingua Franca native speakers or
speakers of English in academic contexts. This book also highlights the growing emphasis on the
use of corpus-based research by examining the implications of corpus findings in educational
settings.
