Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Linguists and psychologists often study sentences in isolation, which may be akin to studying animals in separate cages in a zoo. I have been guilty of this in much of my own work. Our understanding of language will undoubtedly benefit from more focus on language in its natural habitat: conversation (e.g., Du Bois et al., … Read more
The following quotes are from Lieven, E. (2016). Usage-based approaches to language development: Where do we go from here? Language and Cognition,8(3), 346-368. doi:10.1017/langcog.2016.16 Young children show differential and restricted competence in comprehension and production early on; second, that children’s linguistic productivity is tied closely to their linguistic experience, but this interacts with processing capacity, the … 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
How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education? Prof. Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University F. Education, University of Cambridge, 17:00-18:30 SLEG Cambridge talks: URL Some ideas discussed in the talk A multilingual under a multilingual perspective: not necessarily from birth mot mativelike not even equally proficient in different L2s It is in usage that we find explanations … Read more
Tyler & Ortega (2018: 317): Quite simply, corpora are the place to look for patterns of usage. Moreover, we believe that in usage-inspired instruction L2 targets should be taught not just because they can be taught – that is, because we have a good linguistic description or can create good materials – but because corpus … Read more