Category: corpus linguistics
ICAME 34 – Book of abstracts
Review: Exploring New Paths in Language Pedagogy: Lexis and Corpus-based Language Teaching
Review: Exploring New Paths in Language Pedagogy: Lexis and Corpus-based Language Teaching
The difficulty of conducting empirical studies
“Empirical studies are extremely difficult to conduct in applied linguistics, as indeed in any other area of social sciences or the humanities, given the enormous number of different factors which can impact on any given study” (p.264).
Boulton, A. (2012). Corpus consultation for ESP. In Boulton, A., Carter-Thomas, S. and Rowley-Jolivet, E. (eds.). 2012. Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP. Issues and applications. Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 52. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: pp. 261-292.
The difficulty of conducting empirical studies
“Empirical studies are extremely difficult to conduct in applied linguistics, as indeed in any other area of social sciences or the humanities, given the enormous number of different factors which can impact on any given study” (p.264).
Boulton, A. (2012). Corpus consultation for ESP. In Boulton, A., Carter-Thomas, S. and Rowley-Jolivet, E. (eds.). 2012. Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP. Issues and applications. Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 52. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: pp. 261-292.