Frequency & language acquisition
Frequency is a key determinant of acquisition because “rules” of language, at all levels of analysis from phonological, through syntax to discourse, are structural regularities which emerge from learners’ lifetime…
Data-driven learning in informal contexts?
The University of Queensland, 11 am (UK) March 3, 2022 Registration: https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/event/session/7819 Part of the International Perspectives on Corpus Technology for Language Learning – Seminar Series (URL)
NLP resources: POS tagging
CLAWS tagger demo. CLAWS7 tagset. CLAWS7 tagset on Sketch Engine European Union Language Resources in Sketch Engine FreeLing online manual FreeLing tagsets description TreeTagger resources. Online TreeTagger demo
Phil Durrant’s talk available on Youtube
Check out Dr Durrant’s talk “Researching writing development with a corpus” on our research group Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjKIIQL6u1mXD2V9ZaT-_Q More info on the talk here. More info on Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics…
Recent DDL research & events: 5 tips
Really exciting times for DDL and corpus linguistics and education researchers. There’s some interesting new stuff that has just been published, including some interesting conference videos. Here’s my selection. (1)…
Language is never, ever, ever random
“Language is never, ever, ever random” (Kilgarriff, 2005), not in its usage, not in its acquisition, and not in its processing. (Nick C. Ellis, 2017, p. 41) Nick C. Ellis…
Corpus of North American Spoken English (CoNASE)
The Corpus of North American Spoken English (CoNASE), a 1.25-billion-word corpus of geolocated automatic speech-to-text transcripts, is now available in a beta version. URL http://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats/CoNASE.html for more information. The corpus…
Unpacking SLA articles
This seems like an interesting Youtube channel. Florencia Henshaw@Prof_F_Henshaw looks at relevant SLA research papers and provides an overview of their contents and implications for research in the field. So…
Jornada de difusión online proyecto de investigación Nutcracker, 24-25 junio 2021
NUTCRACKER: Sistema de detección, rastreo, monitorización y análisis del discurso terrorista en la Red Funded by: MINECO. 2017-2020. FFI2016-79748-R Proyectos I+d+I – Programa estatal de investigación, desarrollo e innovación orientada…
Where´ is home? EU citizens as migrants.
Approaches to migration, language and identity 2020 AMLI Conference (www) University of Sussex, Wednesday 9 – Friday 11 June 2021 Book of abstracts. Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Elena RemigiUniversidad de Murcia…
How learners are using corpora in EMI contexts
This talk was part of Cambridge University Press ELS Insights on Demand. You can download my presentation slides here. Here´s a list of the references I used in this presentation:…
Using slack to help you run an academic research project
Running an international research project where many researchers from different institutions are involved may seem like a daunting task. COVID-19 has not made things any easier lately. While many of…
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)…
VI online summer school: Writing science in English
06/09/2021 – 10/09/2021 You can join this course here. Inscripciones: URL
Extending corpus linguistics methods to education research
University of Exeter Language & Education Network Research Seminar, 22 February 2021. Abstract Corpora have been widely used in applied linguistics research and, to a lesser extent, in other fields…
Presentación del programa Horizonte Europa CDTI
Jornada I y II de presentación del programa Horizonte Europa – 2 dic 2020 – CDTI Ponentes
Uses of corpora in Spanish Language Teaching
Abad Castelló, Magdalena (2019). Uso de corpus lingüísticos por y para profesores de español como lengua extranjera. redELE Revista electrónica de didáctica del español lengua extranjera, 31. (URL)
Aprendizaje de lenguas mediante dispositivos móviles: alcance, praxis y teoría
Conferencia plenaria, 25 de noviembre 2020,; XXI Congreso SEDLL Multimodalidad y nuevos entornos de aprendizaje en la enseñanza de las lenguas y las literaturas. 3 case studies Pérez-Paredes, P., Ordoñana…
Corpus Data Scraping & Sentiment Analysis
My notes from the November 7th webinar led by Adriana Picoral This is the github resource R studio I´m using R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 We´re…