corpus linguistics

Using Sketch Engine: some how-to resources

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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 … Read more

Receptive and productive mastery of different text varieties

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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 … Read more

Enhancing and extending corpora and corpora tools for learning and teaching

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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 … Read more

Adverb use and language proficiency in young learners’ writing

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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 … Read more