Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes Check out Dr Durrant’s talk “Researching writing development with a corpus” on our research group Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjKIIQL6u1mXD2V9ZaT-_Q More info on the talk here. More info on Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research 2021 site.
By Paulo Martins. University of Mihno, Braga, 11/11/2021 Learning a programming language Coding literacy Learning a programming language is easier than learning a natural language (?), explore new scientific strategies, automate daily tasks, boost problem solving skills. NLP and data science Data: raw, unstructured vs information: structured, organized…useful. Some tools Webcrawlers: fetching comments is … Read more
Really exciting times for DDL and corpus linguistics and education researchers. There’s some interesting new stuff that has just been published, including some interesting conference videos. Here’s my selection. (1) Boulton, A., & Vyatkina, N. (2021). Thirty years of data-driven learning: Taking stock and charting new directions over time. Language Learning & Technology, 25(3), 66-89. Abstract The … Read more
“Language is never, ever, ever random” (Kilgarriff, 2005), not in its usage, not in its acquisition, and not in its processing. (Nick C. Ellis, 2017, p. 41) Nick C. Ellis (2017). Cognition, Corpora, and Computing: Triangulating Research in Usage-Based Language Learning. Language Learning 67(S1), pp. 40–65
The Corpus of North American Spoken English (CoNASE), a 1.25-billion-word corpus of geolocated automatic speech-to-text transcripts, is now available in a beta version. URL http://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats/CoNASE.html for more information. The corpus was created from 301,847 ASR transcripts from 2,572 YouTube channels, corresponding to 154,041 hours of video. The size of the corpus is 1,252,066,371 word tokens. … Read more
This seems like an interesting Youtube channel. Florencia Henshaw@Prof_F_Henshaw looks at relevant SLA research papers and provides an overview of their contents and implications for research in the field. So far (end of July 2021) two episodes have been published.