Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes According to Prof. McEnery, people in conversations avoid using words such as “austerity”, only once in a 5 million corpus. Listen to the interview below. Surprising? Don’t think so. “Expected” words do not crop up when data is examined. We have found that the UK legislation 2007-2011 on immigration does not include the lemma “immigrant” … Read more
Presentation by Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen Publications Aim: to reduce linguistic complexity: lexis, syntax, text length, information order, cohesive texts are easier to follow, numerical simplification, improve quality (texts with errors are difficult to read), spelling and grammar checks, how engaging a text is (personal narratives), humour. Monolingual translation: one language into the same … Read more
Presentation by Phillippe Blache, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université Part of the Measuring ling. complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective workshop at UCL, Belgium, 24 April 2015 Complexity means different things to different people System vs Structural complexity (Dahl, 2004) Existing models: incomplete dependency hypothesis, dependency locality theory, early intermediate constituents principle, activation. However, they … Read more
Presentation by Alex Housen Part of the Measuring ling. complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective workshop at UCL, Belgium, 24 April 2015 Complexity in SLA research Early days: 70s and 80s; simplification vs complexification 1990-2010s: rarely investigates for its own sake As indepedent variable: task complexity, complexity of the L2 target feature As dependent variable: descriptor of L2 … Read more
CONVOCATORIA PARA LA REUNIÓN CONJUNTA DE LA COMISIÓN ACADÉMICA Y DE LA COMISIÓN DE PLANIFICACIÓN DE Salón de Actos Hermenegildo Lumeras de Castro ENSEÑANZAS 23/04/2015, 9:30 horas (Facultad de Química) ORDEN DEL DÍA 1. Lectura y aprobación, si procede, del acta de la sesión anterior 2. Informe del Vicerrector. 3. Sustituciones y bajas de profesorado … Read more
Mesa redonda: La educación superior como espacio multilingüe y multicultural Higher Education as a multilingual and multicultural space Viernes 17 de abril de 2015, 12:00 – 13:30 MR12, Fundación, Salón Actos AESLA 2015 Books of Abstracts PANEL DE SOCIOLINGÜíSTICA Organizadores: Emma Dafouz Milne (UCM) y Pascual Pérez Paredes (UMU) Foro para la reflexión y el debate del eje … Read more