Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Google’s News Lab launched a new tool for making basic data GIFs today. While the Data GIF Maker is mostly geared toward journalists, anybody can use it to make some halfway interesting visuals based on all kinds of data. From: techcrunch.com Here´s the link: https://datagifmaker.withgoogle.com/edit
Click images for enlarged versions Conservative party manifesto: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto2017.pdf Labour party manifesto: http://www.labour.org.uk/page/-/Images/manifesto-2017/Labour%20Manifesto%202017.pdf Libdem party manifesto: http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/5909d4366ad575794c000000/attachments/original/1495020157/Manifesto-Final.pdf?1495020157 Wordclouds generated with http://www.wordclouds.com/ Read my research on the construction of immigrants in the UK legislation and admin informative texts: Constructing immigrants in UK legislation and Administration informative texts: A corpus-driven study (2007–2011), Discourse & Society, 28,1,81-103
Nice tool to build online timelines.
Infografía procedente de la web de Alfredo Vela. URL original: https://alfredovela.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/espanol-en-el-mundo-infografia.jpg?w=1306&h=4336
From the original webiste: Poetry By Heart is a UK national competition designed to encourage pupils aged 14-18 and at school and college in England to learn and to recite poems by heart. Not in an arm-waving, props-supported thespian extravaganza, but as the outward and audible manifestation of an inwardly-understood and enjoyed poem. … Read more
Use arrow keys to view messages and start composing While viewing your messages, use your keyboard’s arrow keys to move your cursor to a conversation, label or the compose button. Press Enter to select. Move between messages in a conversation While viewing a conversation, use n and p to go the next and previous messages … Read more