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How learners are using corpora in EMI contexts

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This talk was part of Cambridge University Press ELS Insights on Demand. You can download my presentation slides here. Here´s a list of the references I used in this presentation: Biber, D. (2019). Text-linguistic approaches to register variation. Register Studies, 1(1), 42-75. Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2009). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge University Press. Brian, A. (2020). A case study of corpus-informed ESP language learning materials for EMI psychology students at the University of Padova. Curry, N. & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2021). Understanding Lecturers’ Practices and Processes: A Qualitative Investigation of … Read more

Using slack to help you run an academic research project

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Running an international research project where many researchers from different institutions are involved may seem like a daunting task. COVID-19 has not made things any easier lately. While many of us have relied in the past on emails to run our projects, there are more efficient ways to keep everybody in the loop, and, at … Read more

There are infinite ways of using language

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Epistemological relativity, for an ELT professional, means that one acceptsthat there are infinite ways of using language and that differences do notautomatically call for judgmental evaluation. (Leung, 2005: p. 138) Leung, C. (2005). Convivial communication: Recontextualizing communicative competence. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 15(2), 119-144. Check other quotations here.

Extending corpus linguistics methods to education research

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University of Exeter Language & Education Network Research Seminar, 22 February 2021. Abstract Corpora have been widely used in applied linguistics research and, to a lesser extent, in other fields such as political science or sociology. However, corpus research methods are rarely taught in education faculties. I will discuss different approaches to using CL methods … Read more

An equitable CALL / SLA interface

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From Ortega, L. (2017) New CALL-SLA Research Interfaces for the 21st Century: Towards Equitable Multilingualism. Calico Journal, 34.3, 285–316. The majority of the world is multilingual, but inequitably multilingual, and much of the world is also technologized, but inequitably so. Thus, researchers in the fields of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and second language acquisition (SLA) … Read more