Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Xiaoya Sun Investigating the Effectiveness of a Data-driven Learning (DDL) intervention in an EFL Academic Writing Class Tue, March 27, 1:50 to 2:20pm, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Arkansas Room Session Submission Type: Paper Abstract The past few decades have witnessed the emergence and development of corpus linguistics “as a powerful methodology-technology” (Lee & Swales, … Read more
Call for chapters for an edited book focusing on the use of corpora for data-driven learning (DDL, Johns, 1991) with young (i.e. pre-tertiary) learners. DDL, despite being a feature of corpora and language learning research for some time, has really taken off as a viable methodological approach in the last decade due to innovations … Read more
Our article, Language teachers’ perceptions on the use of OER language processing technologies in MALL, has just been published on Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal, Taylor & Francis Online. 50 free eprints can be downloaded from the following URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/epWFWhVAGFZ4yRSIaMcA/full Get yours now!!!! Abstract Combined with the ubiquity and constant connectivity of mobile devices, and with … Read more
13th Teaching and Learning Corpora Conference
Lynne Flowerdew Language learning theories underpinning corpus-based pedagogy The noticing hypothesis (Schmidt) Attention consciously drawn Noticing linked to frequency counts Implicit vs explicit learning Constructivist learning Learners engage in discovery learning Inductive learning Cognitive skills, problem solving to understand new data Widmann et al. 2011: the more possible starting points for exploitation, the more likely for … Read more
For digital natives, “research” is more likely to mean a Google search than a trip to the library […] it remains to be seen how corpus resources co-exist with online services like Google and online distionaries and how learners’ search habits behave in both contexts (Pérez-Paredes et al. 2012:484). Pérez-Paredes, P., Sánchez-Tornel, M., & Alcaraz … Read more