Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Corpus Linguistics 2015, University of Lancaster, 21-24 July Yu Yuan: “Exploring the variation in world Learner Englishes: A multidimensional analysis of L2 written corpora” 109 features included in the analysis RQ: Can Biber’s model be extended? How do features co-occur in learner English? Data ICLE 1.0 (Granger, 2002) SWEECL 2.0 (Wen & Wang, 2008) … Read more
This talk discusses some of our findings in Pérez-Paredes, P., & Sánchez Tornel, M. (2015). A multidimensional analysis of learner language during story reconstruction in interviews. In M. Callies & S. Götz (Eds.), Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. A contrastive analysis of native and non-native speaker interviews from Pascual … Read more
This free MOOC Offers practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in social sciences and humanities. It is an 8-week course and is run by Lancaster University. More information here.
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
The Learner Corpus Association (LCA) aims to provide a forum for exchanging ideas on learner corpus research from an interdisciplinary perspective: – Second language acquisition– Foreign language teaching (including CALL)– Language testing– NLP applications (automated scoring, L1 identification, error detection and correction, etc.)– other language-related fields The association was officially launched at the second Learner … Read more
The Learner Corpus Association (LCA) aims to provide a forum for exchanging ideas on learner corpus research from an interdisciplinary perspective: – Second language acquisition– Foreign language teaching (including CALL)– Language testing– NLP applications (automated scoring, L1 identification, error detection and correction, etc.)– other language-related fields The association was officially launched at the second Learner … Read more