Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
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
The Multidimensional Analysis Tagger is a program for Windows that replicates Biber’s (1988) Variation across Speech and Writing tagger for the multidimensional functional analysis of English texts, generally applied for studies on text type or genre variation. The program can generate a grammatically annotated version of the corpus selected as well as the necessary statistics to perform a … Read more
The 15thInternational American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL2020) will take place September 18-19 2020 at Northern Arizona University Main conference general programCall for papers. We invite contributions on a broad and inclusive basis. There are three categories of proposals (full papers, posters and panels). All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the conference program committee. The conference … Read more
The second aspect is summarised in that phrase “potential patterns”. How so? The process operates in two stages. First, all the effort of a concordancer or a word-listing application goes into reducing a vast and complex object to a much simpler shape. That is, a set of 100 million words on a confusing wealth of … Read more
One of the most important goals of formal schooling is teaching text varieties that might not be acquired outside of school […] Early in school, children learn to read books of many different types, including fictional stories, historical accounts of past events, and descriptions of natural phenomena. These varieties rely on different linguistic structures and … Read more