Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
This text from Jan Blommaert’s research blog. I find this text so compelling I´d like to preserve a copy of these words. This text is copyright and belongs to Jan Blommaert, a sociolinguist and discourse analyst. Two of my maîtres à penser died relatively young. Michel Foucault was 57, Erving Goffman was 60. It is highly likely … Read more
A collection of conversations on research methods in action designed to demystify how we know what we ‘know’. The resource has been developed bySarah Lageson PhD, an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University-Newark, School of Criminal Justice and Kyle Green PhD, an Assistant Professor at Utica College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The conversations can be reached here.
Source: Melissa Bond, Olaf Zawacki-Richter & Mark Nichols. 2019. Revisiting five decades of educational technology research: A content and authorship analysis of the British Journal of Educational Technology. British Journal of Educational Technology, 50,1, 12–63.
The Open Accessible Summaries In Language Studies (OASIS) initiative aims to make research findings on language learning and teaching available and accessible to a wide audience. OASIS summaries are one-page descriptions of research articles on language learning, language teaching, and multilingualism that have been published in peer-reviewed journals listed on the Social Science Citation Index. The summaries provide … Read more
Malta, Doctoral Summer School 14 June, 2019 What is a bilingual individual? Knowledge worth knowing to whom, for what purposes, in whose interest? (Ortega, 2019) QUAN research can also adopt an ethical stand. Train yourself in statistics that allow you to bypass fixed idea of native/non-nativeness. Research design can be ethical and political. Use research … Read more
Following three successful conventions, the 4th Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World (LCSAW4) will be held on Sunday, 29, September2019, at Kobe University Centennial Hall in Japan. URL LCSAW4 is organized in cooperation with the ESRC-AHRC project led byDr. Tony McEnery at Lancaster University, UK. Invited Speakers Tony McEnery Patrick Rebuschatt Padraic Monaghan … Read more