Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes Source: The Guardian, Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP Idomeni, Greece A girl looks out from her tent at a train station as she and her family wait to be allowed to cross the border into Macedonia. The bottleneck of refugees in Greece escalated this week as regional officials spoke of a humanitarian crisis on the state’s … Read more
Corpus types and uses B Murphy, E Riordan – The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and …, 2016 … 2008). Another is the SACODEYL corpus, which includes transcribed interviews with British, German, French, Italian Spanish, Lithuanian and Romanian adolescents between 13 and 18 years of age (Hoffstaedter and Kohn 2009). … The Routledge … Read more
The Cambridge Undergraduate Quantitative Methods
Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, 27 February 2016 Some of the presentations ____________________ Lee Oakley, University of Birmingham Some challenges when analysing a Census Corpus The SexEd Corpus: a census corpus 1950-2014 93,202 words 11-16 year olds Teenage readership How are different sexualities presented to British teenagers? Methodological approach to more qualitative analyses All … Read more
Second language education group series, University of Cambridge, 22 Feb, 2016 Back in the 80’s, researching English spoken by non native speakers was considered as a waste of time: what is the point in researching “bad” English? In the early days, it was language ideologies and attitudes, mutual intelligibility, speech and accommodation theory, and the early … Read more
There is a fast-moving worldwide shift from English being taught as a foreign language (EFL) to English being the medium of instruction (EMI) for academic subjects” (Dearden, 2014, p. 2). Dearden, J. (2014). English as a medium of instruction-a growing global phenomenon: Phase 1. London: British Council.