Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Dice score gives very good results of collocation candidates. The only problem is that the values of the Dice score are usually very small numbers. We have defined logDice to fix this problem. Values of the logDice have the following features: – Theoretical maximum is 14, in case when all occurrences of X co-occur with Y and all … Read more
Learners’ search patterns during corpus-based focus-on-form activities: A study on hands-on concordancing Authors: Pérez-Paredes, Pascual; Sánchez-Tornel, María; Calero, Jose M. Alcaraz Source: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Volume 17, Number 4, 2012, pp. 482-515(34) Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company Abstract: Our research explores the search behaviour of EFL learners (n=24) by tracking their interaction … Read more
Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 14th International AELFE Conference Developments in professional/academic communication and implications for language education and research – Bucharest, Romania, 25 – 27 June 2015 Conference venue: Academia de Studii Economice (ASE), Piața Romană 6 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS Registration link In the context of growing professional and … Read more
Through the CALICO List:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Martín-Monje, Elena and Elena Bárcena (Eds.). 2014. Language MOOCs. Providing Learning, Transcending Boundaries. Berlin: De Gruyter Open. This pioneering book presents an initial analysis of the theoretical and methodological issues underlying Language MOOCs and presents empirical evidence of their potential for the development of language communicative competences. It provides a mosaic-like … Read more
This is a question and follow-up initiated by Eduardo César Garrido Merchán in the Linkedin NLPeople group. Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ISSN: 2307-387X)European Chapter of the ACL (EACL)North American Chapter of the Association for Computational LinguisticsInternational Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)Conference on Empirical Methods in … Read more
Academic discourse – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires Source: www.phdcomics.comReferences Biber, D., Conrad, S. 2009. Register, genre and style. Cambridge: CUP. Biber, D. Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan . 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman. Carter-Thomas, S., Rowley-Jolivet, E. 2003. Analysing the scientific conference presentation … Read more