5 recent publications & talks on language learning & technology

An, X., Chai, C. S., Li, Y., Zhou, Y., Shen, X., Zheng, C., & Chen, M. (2022). Modeling English teachers’ behavioral intention to use artificial intelligence in middle schools. Education and Information Technologies, 1-22. (URL) Kumar, B. A., & Goundar, M. S. (2022). Developing mobile language learning applications: a systematic literature review. Education and Information Technologies, 1-21. … Read more

There are infinite ways of using language

Epistemological relativity, for an ELT professional, means that one acceptsthat there are infinite ways of using language and that differences do notautomatically call for judgmental evaluation. (Leung, 2005: p. 138) Leung, C. (2005). Convivial communication: Recontextualizing communicative competence. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 15(2), 119-144. Check other quotations here.

Some references on Usage-based language learning approaches

Ellis, N. (2017) Chapter 6 – Chunking in Language Usage, Learning and Change: I Don’t Know from Part III – Chunking. Edited by Marianne Hundt, Universität Zürich, Sandra Mollin, Universität Heidelberg, Simone E. Pfenninger, Universität Salzburg. Cambridge University Press, pp 113-147 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316091746.006 Ellis, N. (2017). Cognition, Corpora, and Computing: Triangulating Research in Usage‐Based Language Learning. … Read more

Writing tools for researchers

This is a selection of resources for those wishing to improve their scientific and academic writing in English. It showcases some online resources including courses, academic word lists, online data bases, concordancers, corpora as well as some diy tools. Online courses British Council Writing for a purpose Face to face & online courses VI Escribir … Read more

#corpusMOOC Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation starts Sept 29

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.