Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
08/09/2020 – 11/09/2020 Online You can join this course here. Inscripciones: URL. Writing for the masses. A practical introduction to writing scientific -academic English in blogs – September 8 Dissemination and impact of our research have become as important as research itself in many ways. Doing science in the 21st century cannot be understood as … Read more
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Lou Burnard: […] it is no exaggeration to say that without metadata, corpus linguistics would be virtually impossible. Why? Because corpus linguistics is an empirical science, in which the investigator seeks to identify patterns of linguistic behaviour by inspection and analysis of naturally occurring samples of language. A typical corpus analysis will therefore gather together … Read more
Here you can find some useful resources to carry out your transcription project. MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk. 3rd Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Brian MacWhinney (2019) Tools for Analyzing Talk. Part 1: The CHAT Transcription Format. URL:https://childes.talkbank.org/ Leech (2004): types of annotation phonetic annotation e.g. adding information about … Read more
The folowing is from Tyler, A., Ortega, L. (2018) Usage-inspired L2 instructionAn emergent, researched pedagogy. In Tyler, A., Ortega, L., Uno, M., & Park, H. I. (eds). Usage-inspired L2 Instruction : Researched Pedagogy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. There is little question that learning language is one of the most complex accomplishments humans achieve. This is … Read more
Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C., & McEnery, T. (2013). Sketching Muslims: a corpus driven analysis of representations around the word ‘Muslim’ in the British press 1998–2009. Applied Linguistics, 34(3), 255-278. (Text) Baker, P. and Levon, E. (2015) ‘Picking the right cherries?: a comparison of corpus-based and qualitative analyses of news articles about masculnity.’ Discourse and Communication … Read more