computer-mediated communication

SACODEYL corpora #corpuslinguistics in The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology

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    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

CFP Language and the new (instant) media

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2016 PLIN Day, hosted by the Linguistics Research Unit of UCLouvain in Belgium. After last year’s successful edition on Lexical complexity, this year’s topic is ‘Language and the new (instant) media’. The PLIN Day will take place on 12 May 2016 in Louvain-la-Neuve. More information and registration (free for all Belgian participants) The main objective … Read more

The evidence is now in: the explicit teaching of grammar rules leads to better learning

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According to The Guardian there is evidence that the explicit teaching of grammar rules leads to better learning. Nothing that surprises researchers in Form-focused instruction. The article has been written by Dr Catherine Walter, Lecturer in applied linguistics at the University of Oxford, co-author with Michael Swan of the Oxford English Grammar Course. What really interests me is … Read more

The evidence is now in: the explicit teaching of grammar rules leads to better learning

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According to The Guardian there is evidence that the explicit teaching of grammar rules leads to better learning. Nothing that surprises researchers in Form-focused instruction. The article has been written by Dr Catherine Walter, Lecturer in applied linguistics at the University of Oxford, co-author with Michael Swan of the Oxford English Grammar Course. What really interests me is … Read more