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Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
And not only that, you´d better worry about how much personal info your institution gives out about you. Check this gem by Troy Hunt @troyhunt : https://www.troyhunt.com/science-of-password-selection/
Plenary abstract It´s 11 years now that Johansson´s (2009:41) claimed that more systematic studies are needed in order to test the benefits of DDL and to discuss ‘students’ problems with corpus investigation’. The meta-analyses carried out by Boulton & Cobb (2017) and Lee, Warschauer & Lee (2018) have cast robust results on the benefits of … Read more
O’Keeffe, A. (2020). Data-driven learning – a call for a broader research gaze. Language Teaching 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444820000245
Vyatkina, N. 2020. Corpora as open educational resources for language teaching. Foreign Language Annals; 1– 12 Abstract Corpora, large electronic collections of texts, have been used in language teaching for several decades. Also known as Data‐Driven Learning (DDL), this method has been gaining popularity because empirical research has consistently shown its effectiveness for learning. However, corpora are still underutilized, … Read more
Plonsky, L. and Oswald, F.L. (2014), How Big Is “Big”? Interpreting Effect Sizes in L2 Research. Language Learning, 64: 878-912. doi:10.1111/lang.12079 Abstract The calculation and use of effect sizes—such as d for mean differences and r for correlations—has increased dramatically in second language (L2) research in the last decade. Interpretations of these effects, however, have been rare and, when … Read more