"Nice things get said":corpus evidence and the national literacy strategy

Sealey, Alison and Thompson, Paul (2006) "Nice things get said":corpus evidence and the national literacy strategy. Literacy, 40 (1). pp. 22-28. ISSN 1741-4350

Abstract

The article compares evidence from an electronic corpus of texts written for a child audience with specifications in the National Literacy Strategy. The concepts and terminology associated with corpus linguistics are introduced and explained, and the research study from which the findings derive is summarised. Results of the analysis are presented in sections on word frequencies, contractions, word forms and synonyms. The article concludes with an indication of the implications of the findings for education policy and classroom practice.