Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Those who during the last decade tried to barricade the profession against the influence of corpora recycled the critical arguments of the theoreticians thirty years before, and we heard again that no corpus can be a totally accurate sample of a language, that occurrence in a corpus is no guarantee of correctness, that frequency is … Read more
How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education? Prof. Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University F. Education, University of Cambridge, 17:00-18:30 SLEG Cambridge talks: URL Some ideas discussed in the talk A multilingual under a multilingual perspective: not necessarily from birth mot mativelike not even equally proficient in different L2s It is in usage that we find explanations … Read more
Following three successful conventions, the 4th Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World (LCSAW4) will be held on Sunday, 29, September2019, at Kobe University Centennial Hall in Japan. URL LCSAW4 is organized in cooperation with the ESRC-AHRC project led byDr. Tony McEnery at Lancaster University, UK. Invited Speakers Tony McEnery Patrick Rebuschatt Padraic Monaghan … Read more