Enhancing and extending corpora and corpora tools for learning and teaching

CORPORA – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires UJF Valence, France References Boulton, A., Pascual Pérez-Paredes (2014) Researching uses of corpora for language teaching and learning Editorial Researching uses of corpora for language teaching and learning, 121-127. In ReCALL. Pérez-Paredes, P. (2010). Corpus Linguistics and Language Education in Perspective: Appropriation and the Possibilities … Read more

EUROCALL2014 EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS: 31st May 2014

EUROCALL2014: EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS: 31st May 2014 EUROCALL2014 Groningen, The Netherlands, 20-23 August, 2014 http://www.eurocall2014.nl/ EUROCALL2014 is the 21st annual conference of EUROCALL, the European association of computer-assisted language learning. EUROCALL2014 will be held at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands from 20th to 23rd August 2014. Early-bird registration ends on 31st May next. … Read more

Adverb use and language proficiency in young learners’ writing

Adverb use and language proficiency in young learners’ writing Pascual Pérez-Paredes and María Sánchez-Tornel International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:2. 2014. iii, 137 pp. (pp. 178–200) Our research examines the use of general adverbs by learners across grades 5, 6, 9 and 10 in the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI) by looking at whether … Read more