Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes From Jon Winokur @AdviceToWriters Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty. CHUCK WENDIG (Star Wars author)
Oxford-Cambridge PhD students’ exchange seminar. Department of Education, University of Oxford. June 1, 2018. Keynote: Education and learning research in the age of complexity and fragmentation: an introspection On 1 June 2018 I had the privilege to deliver a keynote on the Oxford-Cambridge PhD in Education exchange. I discussed the impact of the ideas of … Read more
Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., & Finegan, E. (1999). Longman grammar of spoken and written language. Harlow: Longman. Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2009). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., Conrad, S., & Cortes, V. (2004). If you look at…: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Applied … Read more
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Requested by one of my students, a selection of 5 recent papers on Data-driven learning and the use of corpora in language education. Ballance, O. J. (2017). Pedagogical models of concordance use: correlations between concordance user preferences. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 30(3-4), 259-283. (Link) Boulton, A. (2017). Corpora in language teaching and learning. … Read more
Love this art by Christopher Vorlet in The Chronicle of Higher Education. This is about how those in the academia experience anxiety and the never-ending feeling that there is not such thing as “enough”. I was shocked by this quote: “Academia is like a pie-eating contest where the reward is more pie.”
Productivity anxiety: the uneasy feeling that there is always something left to do.
You can read the whole piece here:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Feeling-Anxious-You-re-Not/243117