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Deadline November 30: ReCALL Journal Special Issue. Call for Papers: Researching uses of corpora for language teaching and learning

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Submission deadline: 30th November 2012Publication date: May 2014 Guest editors: Pascual Pérez-ParedesEnglish DepartmentUniversidad de MurciaCampus de la Merced 30071MurciaSPAINpascualf@um.es Alex BoultonCRAPEL – ATILF / CNRS,Université de LorraineFRANCEalex.boulton@univ-lorraine.fr Corpus linguistics has revolutionised many fields of language study, and represents the epitome of empirical research in language description. Corpora can even be used as a learning tool … Read more

Deadline November 30: ReCALL Journal Special Issue. Call for Papers: Researching uses of corpora for language teaching and learning

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Submission deadline: 30th November 2012Publication date: May 2014 Guest editors: Pascual Pérez-ParedesEnglish DepartmentUniversidad de MurciaCampus de la Merced 30071MurciaSPAINpascualf@um.es Alex BoultonCRAPEL – ATILF / CNRS,Université de LorraineFRANCEalex.boulton@univ-lorraine.fr Corpus linguistics has revolutionised many fields of language study, and represents the epitome of empirical research in language description. Corpora can even be used as a learning tool … Read more

Pupils who used QfL showed significant gains in grammar

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Researchers at the IEE conducted a large randomised evaluation in more than 40 primary schools of the use of Questions for Learning (QfL), a technology-enhanced, self-paced learning tool. It was found to enhance grammar achievement and was particularly effective for average- and low-achieving pupils. If these results held over a school year, these pupils would … Read more