Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Online Data-Driven Learning SPOC “Improving Writing Through Corpora” is now live at the following address:https://edge.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UQx+SLATx+2019/about Improvements in Version 2 include: A) All course images and functionality have been updated for the ‘new’ Sketch Engine interface. B) New functions specific to the ‘new’ Sketch Engine interface are now included in the course (e.g. Good Dictionary EXamples … Read more
(1) Jacques Barzun: The act of writing is itself an exercise of thought. Writing is important. But thinking is essential. Read more here. Make sure your writing reflects criticality. (2) Try to achieve clarity. Nobody has ever been criticized for writing that is too clear. Communicate your ideas in the simplest and most precise way … Read more
Malta, Doctoral Summer School 14 June, 2019 What is a bilingual individual? Knowledge worth knowing to whom, for what purposes, in whose interest? (Ortega, 2019) QUAN research can also adopt an ethical stand. Train yourself in statistics that allow you to bypass fixed idea of native/non-nativeness. Research design can be ethical and political. Use research … Read more
Those who during the last decade tried to barricade the profession against the influence of corpora recycled the critical arguments of the theoreticians thirty years before, and we heard again that no corpus can be a totally accurate sample of a language, that occurrence in a corpus is no guarantee of correctness, that frequency is … Read more
Following three successful conventions, the 4th Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World (LCSAW4) will be held on Sunday, 29, September2019, at Kobe University Centennial Hall in Japan. URL LCSAW4 is organized in cooperation with the ESRC-AHRC project led byDr. Tony McEnery at Lancaster University, UK. Invited Speakers Tony McEnery Patrick Rebuschatt Padraic Monaghan … Read more
Language is the quintessence of distributed cognition. Language and usage are like the shoreline and the sea. Usage affects learning, and it affects languages, too. So, our understanding of language learning requires the detailed investigation of usage, its content, its participants, and its contexts—the micro level of human social action, interaction, and conversation, the meso level of sociocultural and educational … Read more