Rethinking learning in DDL

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

Vyatkina 2020. Corpora as open educational resources for language teaching.

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