Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
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HOUSE OF LORDS Science and Technology Select Committee 2nd Report of Session 2015–16 EU membership and UK science Access the report Create your own word cloud
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
CLS12 will take place on Saturday 2 April 2016 at Edge Hill University. The focus of CLS12 is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that … Read more
Cambridge Language Sciences Initiative Speakers: Dr Teresa Parodi (Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) and Dr Pascual Perez-Paredes (Faculty of Education) -Longitudinal corpora of untutored learners Teresa Parodi, Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics -Noun Phrases in Spanish young learners of EFL: insights from the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI) Pascual Pérez-Paredes, RSLE, … Read more
Sinclair, J. 2004. Trust the text. Language, corpus and discourse. London: Routledge.