Month: July 2015

Multi-dimensional analysis of oral proficiency interviews #cl2015

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  Shelley Staples; Jesse Egbert; Geoff LaFlair A multi-dimensional comparison of oral proficiency interviews to conversation, academic and professional spoken registers MELAB : Michigan Engish Language Battery 989 OPIs in 2013 OPI used for academic and profesional purposes Only transcribed the first 5 minutes 55 linguistic features TagCount FA 6 factor solution Dimensions interpreted functionally Dimension scores Differences across … Read more

Non-obvious meaning in CL and CADS #cl2015

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Plenary session: Alan Partington Non-obvious meaning in CL and CADS: from ‘hindsight post-dictability’ to sweet serendipity Chair: Amanda Potts http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/blog/clb/ Introspection & intuition Processes of inference from the linguistic trace left by speakers/writers Shared meaning Idiom principle Complexity of common grammatical items Colligation: every word primed to occur in or avoid certain grammatical positions and … Read more

A linguistic taxonomy of registers on the searchable web #cl2015

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  Doug Biber; Jesse Egbert; Mark Davies Panel: A linguistic taxonomy of registers on the searchable web: Distribution, linguistic descriptions, and automatic register identification Abstract book pp 52-54 Doug Biber Oral-literate dimensions & Narrative dimension remain constant in all MDA across languages and registers Oral-literate dimensions 3 dimensions here Pronouns & questions, verbs, dependent clauses crucial in … Read more

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Representation of benefit claimants in UK media #cl2015

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  Ben Clarke The ideological representation of benefit claimants in UK print media 2010 – 2014 2.3 M corpus benefits clsimant(s) search criteria Adjectival constructions Adjective lemmas are ranked hard number 40 tough number 53 enTenTen13 score Tough on is significant in the corpus Tough patterns Benefit claimants: scroungers tougher conditions, curbs on Prepositions and … Read more

Tono Linguistic feature extraction #cefr #cl2015

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Yukio Tono Linguistic feature extraction and evaluation using machine learning to identify “criterial” grammar constructions for the CEFR levels   L2 learner profile English Profile – CEFR for Englsih Criterial features: Hawkins & Filipovic 2012 CEFR-J RLD Project: aim prepare list of vocabulary and grammar item to be taught and assessed at each CEFR level CEFR … Read more

Language learning theories underpinning corpus-based pedagogy #cl2015

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  Lynne Flowerdew Language learning theories underpinning corpus-based pedagogy The noticing hypothesis (Schmidt) Attention consciously drawn Noticing linked to frequency counts Implicit vs explicit learning  Constructivist learning Learners engage in discovery learning Inductive learning Cognitive skills, problem solving to understand new data Widmann et al. 2011: the more possible starting points for exploitation, the more likely for … Read more