Tyler (2010): Usage-Based Approaches to Language and Their Applications to Second Language Learning
A selection of extracts form : Tyler, A. (2010). Usage-Based Approaches to Language and Their Applications to Second Language Learning. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 30, 270-291. doi:10.1017/S0267190510000140 The central idea in…
Understanding language in its natural habitat
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…
Why conventional formulations become easier to access?
An important role for competition and error-driven learning was detailed in chapter 5, offering a way for learners to overcome overgeneralizations and learn the constraints on words and constructions. As a…
Recordings of #corpuslinguistics LAEL webinars
This message distributed on the corpora list by Prof Tony Berber Sardinha, Director, LAEL. Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics The recordings of the following LAEL webinars are available at:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-sGRAJFwaPj0I4U3aR0jA Speaker:…
Dovchin (2020): Linguistic racism and international students
Sender Dovchin (2020) The psychological damages of linguistic racism and international students in Australia, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2020.1759504 Some extracts from this paper The concept of ‘linguistic racism’ in this…
Mike McCarthy on discovery our histories as language educators
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Herramientas digitales y escritura científica
La utilización de herramientas digitales para la comunicación profesional se ha convertido en un hecho habitual para la mayoría de los investigadores y docentes universitarios. No en vano, las nuevas…
SyntagNet
This information from corpora-bounces@uib.no SyntagNet, a resource with 88,000 lexical-semantic combinations, is now out! We are proud to announce that SyntagNet 1.0 (http://syntagnet.org) is now available for download at http://syntagnet.org/download….
Baby TaLC 2020 postponed
URL: https://langident.hypotheses.org/talc2020/baby-talc2020-e-grapheles En fonction des dernières informations concernant le coronavirus et les recommandations officielles en France, nous ne pourrons plus organiser en présentiel le colloque au mois de mai. L’organisation envisagée avec des…
V curso online: Escribir ciencia en inglés
Fechas de realización: del 08/09/2020 al 11/09/2020 Online You can jon this course here. Inscripciones: URL.
Encontrar y sustituir texto
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Give (social research) methods a chance
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…
Some online text processing tools in one site
Online text tools is a collection of useful text processing utilities. All text tools are simple, free and easy to use. There are no ads, popups or other garbage. Just…
Corpora and metadata
Lou Burnard: […] it is no exaggeration to say that without metadata, corpus linguistics would be virtually impossible. Why? Because corpus linguistics is an empirical science, in which the investigator…
Transcription
Here you can find some useful resources to carry out your transcription project. MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk. 3rd Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates….
Usage based in a nutshell (Ellis 2012)
Usage-based theories of language hold that learners acquire constructions in a similar fashion—from the statistical abstraction of patterns of form-meaning correspondence in their usage experience—and that the acquisition of linguistic…
Five tenets that shape usage-inspired L2 instruction (Tyler & Ortega, 2018)
The folowing is from Tyler, A., Ortega, L. (2018) Usage-inspired L2 instructionAn emergent, researched pedagogy. In Tyler, A., Ortega, L., Uno, M., & Park, H. I. (eds). Usage-inspired L2 Instruction :…
Usage based and the emergence of L1
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…
Starting corpus-based CDA: 4 references
Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C., & McEnery, T. (2013). Sketching Muslims: a corpus driven analysis of representations around the word ‘Muslim’ in the British press 1998–2009. Applied Linguistics, 34(3), 255-278. (Text)…