John Sinclair and language theory

The following is an extract form Hunston (2022, p. 256). Hunston, S. (2022). Corpora in applied linguistics. Cambridge University Press. Sinclair made a number of generalisations in the 1980s (Sinclair 1991, 2004; see also Francis 1993; Hoey 2005; Hunston 2002; Stubbs 2001) which might be summarised as follows: • In describing the meanings of a word, … Read more

Free online event “Corpus & applied linguistics research 2022”

–Corpus linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Prof Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster October 5, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time) –Who’s in this corpus? Looking at language and identity with (and without) demographic metadata Dr Gavin Brookes, University of Lancaster October 12, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time) –Corpus linguistics and the discursive … Read more

Some interesting new research on corpora, technology and language learning

Curry, N. (2022). On Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics and Language Pedagogy: Reimagining Applications for Contemporary English Language Teaching. In: McCallum, L. (eds) English Language Teaching. English Language Teaching: Theory, Research and Pedagogy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2152-0_14 Li, L. X. (2022). Meta-Analytical Approach to the Impact of Corpus-Driven Teaching on Foreign Language Acquisition. Mobile Information Systems, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5049312 Ng, C.H., … Read more