Balunda MA Thesis Teaching Academic Vocabulary With Corpora

    TEACHING ACADEMIC VOCABULARY WITH CORPORA: STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF DATA-DRIVEN LEARNING Stephanie A Balunda Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in the Department of English, Indiana University December 2009   ii Accepted by the Faculty of Indiana University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts  _________________________________________ Julie A Belz, PhD, Chair  _________________________________________ Ulla M Connor, PhD Master’s Thesis Committee  _________________________________________ Thomas A Upton, PhD  iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincerest thanks to my thesis committee members, Professors Julie A Belz, Ulla M Connor, and Thomas A Upton I wish also to sincerely thank Professor Aye-Nu Duerksen for giving me the opportunity to work with the students in the EAP program, and for her continual support during the appointment Thanks to Suzan Stamper for helping me with all the logistics of the project, and also to the G011 students whose comments and insights fill many of these pages and without which I would have had nothing to say Finally, I am most grateful and thankful for the support and love of my father, Richard, who works hard so I can spend my time thinking about and studying language