Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes (Through the Corpora-List) Herrenhausen Conference, March 25-27, 2015, Hanover, Germany Big Data in a Transdisciplinary Perspective Large amounts of data, a variety of sources, high speed production, but also high speed processing – these are the basic characteristics of Big Data. The amount of data that is generated and collected in each second grows exponentially. … Read more
An NPR feature which disccusses W. Pennebaker contribution to human use of words. This was also the subject of my own contribution to the 2010 World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies within the session “Interdisciplinary research between Corpus Linguistics and Clinical Psychology” at Boston University, MA.
Acces the archive here. Read the news on the BBC portal.
Nearly every other industry has been changed beyond recognition by the invention of computers. Why not education, arguably one of the industries with the most to gain? Source: www.scoop.it See on Scoop.it – Applied linguistics and knowledge engineering
The next session of Writing in the Sciences starts Tuesday September 2 on OpenEdX. Registration is here: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Medicine/Sci-Write/Fall2014/about
This course is for people who are learning English and who are interested in finding out more about British culture and improving their English language skills. The course will use short videos to present a different topic each week, including English as a global language, the environment, entrepreneurship and literature. Filmed in Great Britain, these … Read more