Marcus Callies

• Prof. Dr. phil.
• Chair at University of Bremen

This paper reports on the affordances of corpora in the context of a teaching model that aims to highlight and strengthen the relevance and applicability of (socio-)linguistic content knowledge of World Englishes for university-based teacher education and the ELT classroom. We use large electronic corpora as one resource for the student teachers to...

This chapter highlights and discusses the special characteristics of learner corpus data and the challenges they may present for corpus compilation, annotation, and analysis. Because learner corpus and SLA researchers use their data to study L2 production and development, it is of utmost importance that the data are valid, that is, they represent “...

In this paper, we explore the role of Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) proverbs in language contact settings and their impact on the development of idiomatic phraseology in Nigerian English (NgE). In a set of 100 NPE proverbs, we identified lexical keywords that served as anchors for searches in the large‐scale Nairaland corpus to detect recurrent col...

This chapter addresses the complex process of curriculum innovation in the shift from traditional ELT to TEIL and how the success of such innovation can be assessed and evaluated. Based on recent developments in curriculum innovation in Germany, we first summarise the perspectives that have been taken in the field of TEIL to explore recent developm...

This article examines football fan choreographies as multimodal performances. Fan choreographies, which are regularly organized by supporter groups at football stadia around the world, combine collective embodied actions with diverse media such as banners and flags. Choreographies serve multiple communicative purposes ranging from celebrating a tea...

This entry discusses cultural keywords, that is, words and phrases that have a particular cultural significance and salience in a speech community. It surveys the linguistic research that has been carried out on cultural keywords in the frameworks of lexicography, corpus linguistics, cultural linguistics and cognitive sociolinguistics and also desc...

This entry discusses the concept of information structure and several fundamental principles of information structure that govern the ordering of units of information within a sentence or utterance (constituent order, information status, and syntactic weight/heaviness) as well as related concepts (topic, focus, emphasis, intensification, and contra...

The massive commercialization and marketization of football has been subject to fundamental criticism by football supporters who protest the unwanted modernization and sell-out of the game. For example, much criticism has targeted the selling of naming rights of football stadia which has become common practice in the German Bundesliga, and, to a le...

Die Interaktion von organisierten Fangruppen gegnerischer Vereine im Fussballstadion ist ganz überwiegend gekennzeichnet durch einen Darbietungswettbewerb der jeweiligen Ultragruppie-rungen, der sich am sichtbarsten durch die Verwendung von Gesängen, Fahnen, Spruchbändern und Choreographien manifestiert. Dabei kommt es relativ häufig zu verbalen un...

This article explores Nigerian Pidgin English proverbs as a source of cultural conceptualisations that reflect traditional wisdom as well as the modern urban setting of West Africa. A total of 173 proverbs sourced from the BBC News Pidgin's Instagram service were analysed for recurrent lexical keywords and themes (e.g. those relating to food, eatin...

English Language Teaching (ELT) and teacher education in Germany are still very much focused on “Standard English”, i. e. standard British and/or American English, and its corresponding socio-cultural norms. However, an emerging paradigm shift in ELT brought about by the worldwide expansion and diversification of the English language calls for a re...

I apply a netnographic approach and analyse the linguistic-semiotic characteristics and (meta-)pragmatic functions of fan protest banners displayed in football stadia across Germany in early 2020. The findings suggest that meaning-making through fan banners and the de-coding of that meaning necessitates an understanding of the interplay of material...

Learner Corpus Research (LCR) as a field only emerged and became visible at the turn of the 1990s in the context of the popularization of corpus linguistics at large, but has rapidly evolved and grown in scope and sophistication over the past three to four decades. It now bears all signs of an established discipline: it has an academic journal, the...

Kachru’s “Three Circles” model distinguishes between English as a native language (ENL), English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL). While this categorical tripartite distinction has been challenged, its wide influence and application in different research paradigms has resulted in the highly contradictory practice t...

Dieser Aufsatz basiert auf Ergebnissen aus dem Projekt Digi-Spotlights, in dem mittels der exemplarischen Entwicklung innovativer Lehrkonzepte fachwissenschaftliche und fachdidaktische Elemente in der universitären Lehrerbildung systematisch miteinander in Beziehung gesetzt und im Hinblick auf die Vernetzung der beiden Inhaltsbereiche bei Studieren...

This chapter reports on a teaching intervention at the interface of linguistics, language education, and teaching practice that aims to reduce the structural and conceptual fragmentation of university teacher education programs. We have developed this teaching intervention to address the need for the reduction of knowledge fragmentation to achieve...

The worldwide spread, diversification, and globalization of the English language in the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has significant implications for English Language Teaching and teacher education. We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift towards Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) that aims to pro...

English Language Education (ELE) in Germany, with its traditional focus on standard British and American English and native-speaker norms more broadly, appears to be relatively unaffected by recent developments toward Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL). The present chapter introduces the volume and its individual contributions, al...

Das von Kachru (1992) vorgeschlagene Modell der drei konzentrischen Kreise, das unter den englischsprachigen Ländern kategorisch unterscheidet zwischen solchen, in denen Englisch als Muttersprache, als Zweitsprache oder als Fremdsprache erworben bzw. erlernt wird, hat die Modellbildung zur weltweiten Ausbreitung des Englischen nachhaltig beeinfluss...

This book advances and broadens the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture by exploring metaphor and figurative language as a characteristic of the many Englishes that have developed in a wide range of geographic, socio-historical and cultural settings around the world. In line with the interdisciplinary brea...

Die weltweite Verbreitung, Globalisierung, und die hierdurch entstandene Varietätenvielfalt des Englischen sowie seine Stellung als globale Lingua Franca bringen bedeutsame Implikationen für den Englischunterricht ("English Language Teaching", ELT) und die Lehrkräfteausbildung mit sich. Während in Deutschland nach wie vor entweder das britische ode...

The various linguistic surface forms used to refer to the social phenomenon of corruption in West African Englishes are often metaphorically motivated and have gained increasing attention in the last few years. Several recent studies aim at identifying what could be summarized as a ‘lexicon of corruption’ comprising expressions for veiled bribes in...

In this chapter we report on the creation of the Corpus of English as a Foreign Language (COREFL), a learner corpus of written and spoken narratives produced by Spanish and German learners of English as a Foreign Language at various levels of proficiency. We outline the benefits of learner corpora for the study of narratives when compared to more c...

The present study looks at adverb placement in expert writing and in first-language and second-language novice spoken and written production. The extent to which first-language (L1) transfer is still present in advanced learners' written production is also investigated. The study uses data from one expert corpus (LOCRA), two native-speaker student...

This chapter provides a list of transfer heuristics together with examples from design research into the dovetailing and interlinking of subject matter and subject matter didactics in mathematics and English language teacher training. https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/99

Recent decades have seen a fundamental change and transformation in the commercialisation and popularisation of sports and sporting events. Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports uses corpus resources to offer new perspectives on the language and discourse of this increasingly popular and culturally significant area of research. Bringing toge...

Despite the increasing popularization and availability of corpus tools and resources, the practice of English language teaching still seems to be only marginally affected by the corpus-linguistic turn, because comparatively few teachers were trained in corpus linguistics and use corpora or corpus software regularly themselves (Mukherjee 2004; Römer...

While native corpora and corpus linguistic tools and methods have been used and applied for quite some time in the development of learning and teaching materials, learner corpora are only just beginning to impact the field of language teaching, testing and assessment. This volume helps to close this still existing gap and highlights the great poten...

We present some first results of a validation study that compared a vocabulary inventory of frequent word meanings in L1 child English with comparable corpus data produced by young learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The inventory is based on child-language samples of speech and writing from several native English reference corpora to...

One of the final hurdles for advanced L2 learners is the acquisition of lexico- and morpho-syntactic alternations when constrained by information-structure (IS) factors like topic and focus that are located at the interface of grammar and discourse. Departing from two broad research traditions in SLA (formal and functional) we review how advanced a...

At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In this endeavour, this volume unveils the many facets...

Rohdenburg (2009) found that prepositions are increasingly omitted in several types of verbs, marking a shift in complementation from an intransitive pattern with a prepositional object to a transitive pattern featuring a direct object noun phrase. In particular, the decrease of prepositional objects after antagonistic verbs (appeal, battle, fight,...

This paper discusses the culture-specificity of figurative language use in varieties of English. Idioms as a special type of figurative language are understood as being conceptually motivated by underlying metaphorical mappings, also reflecting the nexus of language and culture. On the basis of data from large-scale web corpora of varieties of Engl...

This paper investigates a new type of formative in English that frequently gives rise to a productive word-formation process. Three questions that have been discussed controversially in previous research will be addressed: What is the origin of these formatives? What type of morpheme do they represent? What type of word-formation process are they i...

This paper adopts a process-oriented approach to comparing EFL and ESL varieties and examines to what extent they are driven by general cognitive processes of language acquisition and production. A comparative corpus-study of lexical innovations in derivational morphology brings to light two general types of innovations: 1) interlingual, L1-based i...

Kollokationen sind für FremdsprachenlernerInnen vergleichsweise schwer zu erwerben, aber für das Erreichen muttersprachenähnlicher Kompetenz im Hinblick auf eine idiomatische und flüssige Sprachverwendung von entscheidender Bedeutung. Zur Phraseologie wissenschaftlicher Texte, die von LernerInnen des Englischen als Fremdsprache im Kontext des Erwer...

The aim of this chapter is to contribute to research and practice on the integration of corpus linguistics into curricula for foreign language teachers. I discuss the concept of corpus literacy, a bundle of complex skills conceived of as the ability to use the tools and technology of corpus linguistics to investigate language and to enhance foreign...

This paper examines novice writers’ strategies in the (non-)representation of authorship in academic writing drawing on data from the Corpus of Academic Learner English and a native-speaker control corpus. The analysis focuses on the quantitative and qualitative use of pronouns, subject placeholders, as well as verbs and inanimate nouns that freque...

The importance of appropriate assessment methods for academic writing skills in higher education has received increasing attention in SLA research in recent years. Despite this, there is still relatively little understanding of how academic writing skills develop at the most advanced levels of proficiency. Use of the Common European Framework of Re...

Learner corpora present an option to inform, supplement and advance the way language proficiency is operationalized and assessed, and may also be used in data-driven approaches to the assessment of writing proficiency that are largely independent of human rating. The aim of this contribution is twofold: first, to introduce a new Language-for-Specif...

This chapter provides a critical assessment of the study of pragmatics within Second Language Acquisition research and argues for a broadening of the scope of inquiry in Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP). Traditionally, ILP has been heavily influenced by and largely modeled on cross-cultural pragmatics, adopting its theories, research topics and metho...

When English nouns are borrowed into German, they need to be assigned grammatical gender. Since grammatical gender information is not present in English, the integration of anglicisms in German offers the opportunity to investigate regularities of gender assignment. Furthermore, it can be expected that the integration of loanwords can cause some va...

Der vorliegende Beitrag thematisiert am Beispiel des Forschungspro-jekts " Lexiko-grammatische Variation in fortgeschrittenen Lernerva-rietäten " die Möglichkeiten der Lernerkorpuslinguistik, eine Brücken-funktion im Spannungsfeld von Sprachwissenschaft und Fremdspra-chenerwerbsforschung auf der einen Seite, sowie Fremdsprachen-didaktik und den pra...

This chapter examines variation in gender assignment to English loanwords -a phenomenon that has rarely been studied on a large empirical basis to date. We report on a multi-method study of gender assignment to Anglicisms as evidenced by large newspaper corpora and experimental data elicited from German native speakers, allowing empirically well-gr...

The present paper examines the development of the variation between a marked and an unmarked infinitival complement clause in three types of cleft constructions in 20th century English. Data from corpora of written and spoken British (BrE) and American English (AmE) evidence a significantly divergent development of these clefts types in speaking wh...

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the human mind. As far as the exact relationship between the cognitive sciences and other fields is concerned, however, it appears that interdisciplinary exchange often remains unrealized, possibly because of the uni-directional application of theories, concepts, and methods, which impedes the pro...

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the human mind. As far as the exact relationship between the cognitive sciences and other fields is concerned, however, it appears that interdisciplinary exchange often remains unrealized, possibly because of the uni-directional application of theories, concepts, and methods, which impedes the pro...

Advances in corpus compilation, design and technology have made possible the description of several patterns of grammatical variation and change in Present-Day English (PDE), as well as the uncovering of several factors that underlie such patterns of variation and change (see e.g. the papers in Rohdenburg and Mondorf 2003, and the monographs by Mai...

This paper examines the frequency of occurrence and contextual use of raising constructions in the written production of advanced German and Polish learners of English, based on material from the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) and comparable native speaker writing. Raising is an interesting phenomenon to study with respect to both a...

This paper reports on a study that examined a group of advanced German L2 learners' awareness and use of English focusing devices. Recent studies suggest that learners are aware of lexical resources, but lack awareness of grammatical structures. Focus constructions, i.e. pragmatically motivated word order variations, are pivotal to any text where i...

This paper has examined the two alternative constituent orderings of the DA in advanced learner writing to find out whether major principles of information structure influence learners' use of either variant. The findings suggest that the fundamental lexical constraints on DA verbs appear to be unproblematic for advanced learners, and that informat...

This paper reports on a study that examined a group of advanced German L2 learners' awareness and use of English focusing devices. Recent studies suggest that learners are aware of lexical resources, but lack awareness of grammatical structures. Focus constructions, i.e. pragmatically motivated word order variations, are pivotal to any text where i...

This paper introduces the Corpus of Academic Learner English (CALE), a Language for Specific Purposes learner corpus that is currently being compiled for the quantitative and qualitative study of lexico-grammatical variation patterns in advanced learners' written academic English. CALE is designed to comprise seven academic genres produced by learn...