Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
La influencia que los medios de comunicación ejercen sobre nuestros hábitos, creencias y opiniones es, desgraciadamente, enorme. Aceptar que lo que se nos muestra ES la realidad supone menoscabar nuestra propia capacidad crítica y regalar a estos medios, y a sus intereses económicos y agendas, la forma en la que como individuos aceptamos y entendemos … 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
Q: How much should a discourse analyst know before he or she engages in corpus work? A: I don’t agree with the presupposition. No discourse analyst needs to know anything doing Corpus Linguistics. What they need (for either) is an open mind, a willingness to learn, to take risks, to make mistakes, to ask for … 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
How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education? Prof. Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University F. Education, University of Cambridge, 17:00-18:30 SLEG Cambridge talks: URL Some ideas discussed in the talk A multilingual under a multilingual perspective: not necessarily from birth mot mativelike not even equally proficient in different L2s It is in usage that we find explanations … Read more