Category: corpus linguistics

Using Sketch Engine: some how-to resources

General SKE Youtube Channel

Brief overview

Creating your corpus and data upload


Finding metadata for source documents in the Sketch Engine


Concordancer


Using the Expert option: ‘Context’ in the Sketch Engine

Thinning down your concordance output

Using Sketch Difference for lexical disambiguation

Taller sobre herramientas de análisis textual: La herramienta Sketch EngineFacultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Junio 2011 (última revisión noviembre 2011)

Organizado por:

Doaa Samy (doaa_samy@hotmail.com) (doaasamy@cu.edu.eg)

Ana Fernández Pampillón Cesteros (apampi@filol.ucm.es)

Jorge Arús Hita (jarus@filol.ucm.es)

Receptive and productive mastery of different text varieties

Receptive mastery of different text varieties increases access to information, while productive mastery increases the ability to participate in varying communities. And if you cannot analyze a variety that is new to you, you cannot help yourself or others learn to master it.  Biber & Conrad (2009:4)

Biber, D. & Conrad, S. 2009.
Register, genre and style. CUP.

Enhancing and extending corpora and corpora tools for learning and teaching


CORPORA – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires UJF Valence, France

References

Boulton, A., Pascual Pérez-Paredes (2014) Researching uses of corpora for language teaching and learning Editorial Researching uses of corpora for language teaching and learning, 121-127. In ReCALL.

Pérez-Paredes, P. (2010). Corpus Linguistics and Language Education in Perspective: Appropriation and the Possibilities Scenario. In T. Harris & M. Moreno Jaén (Eds.), Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching (pp. 53-73). Peter Lang.

Pérez-Paredes, P. María Sánchez-Tornel, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero (2012) Learners’ search patterns during corpus-based focus-on-form activities, 483-516. In International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17 (4).

Viana, Zyngier & Barnbrook (2011). Perspectives on corpus linguistics. John Benjamins.
Resources

Backbone search

SACODEYL Search

SACODEYL & Bacbone DIY tools

Adverb use and language proficiency in young learners’ writing

Adverb use and language proficiency in young learners’ writing

Pascual Pérez-Paredes and María Sánchez-Tornel

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:2. 2014. iii, 137 pp. (pp. 178–200)

Our research examines the use of general adverbs by learners across grades 5, 6, 9 and 10 in the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI) by looking at whether this use increases with age. For our research we use data from the Polish, Spanish and Chinese components in the ICCI, in particular, those from the “food” and “money” topics. Our results show that general adverbs are more widely used as age increases. Statistically significant differences were found between grade 6 and 10 learners across all three L1 groups in terms of the frequency of use of general adverbs, which suggests that 10-graders integrate adverbs in their discourse in ways that differ from those in previous years. This study, together with Pérez-Paredes & Díez-Bedmar’s (2012), suggests that learners below grade 9 are more unlikely to use adverbs.

Keywords: International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage, interlanguage development, age, learner writing, general adverbs