Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes 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.
NUTCRACKER: Sistema de detección, rastreo, monitorización y análisis del discurso terrorista en la Red Funded by: MINECO. 2017-2020. FFI2016-79748-R Proyectos I+d+I – Programa estatal de investigación, desarrollo e innovación orientada a los retos de la sociedad. “Nutcracker: System for Detection, Tracking, Monitoring and Analysis of the Discourse of Terror on the Net” LINK 24 JUNE … Read more
Approaches to migration, language and identity 2020 AMLI Conference (www) University of Sussex, Wednesday 9 – Friday 11 June 2021 Book of abstracts. Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Elena RemigiUniversidad de Murcia / The In Limbo Project When? Thursday June 10, Panel A: Foregrounding migrant perspectives 11:25 UK time Abstract Since January 2021, UK and EU citizens can no longer … Read more