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How Smartphones Have Influenced Our Way Of Thinking

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Some references for an undergrad CADS project on the representation of migrants in mass media

Doherty, B. (2015), ‘Why words matter when reporting migrants’ stories’. Media Asia, 42(3-4): 136-143.

Gerard, L. (2016), ‘The press and immigration: Reporting the news or fanning the flames of hatred?’ SubScribe, 3. URL: http://www.sub‐scribe.co.uk/2016/09/the‐press‐and‐immigration‐reporting.html

Goodfellow, M. (2020), Hostile environment: How immigrants became scapegoats, New York: Verso Books.

Pérez-Paredes, P. (2024). Frequency and keyness: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation? In Charlotte Taylor, & Frazer Heritage (eds.). Analyzing Representation. A Corpus and Discourse Textbook.. Routledge, pp. 43-65.

Pérez-Paredes, P., Aguado. P. & Sánchez, P. (2017). Immigrants in UK legislation and Administration informative texts: a corpus-driven study (2007-2011). Discourse & Society,28,1,81-103.

Pérez-Paredes, P. & Remigi, E. (2025). EU citizens as migrants. In Charlotte Taylor, Simon Goodman and Stuart Dunmore (eds.) Discursive construction of migrant identities. Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies. Bloomsbury.

Taylor, C. (2014). Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press: A cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis. International journal of corpus linguistics, 19(3), 368-400.

Taylor, C. (2020). Representing the Windrush generation: metaphor in discourses then and now. Critical Discourse Studies, 17(1), 1-21.

Taylor, C. (2021). Metaphors of migration over time. Discourse & Society, 32(4), 463-481.

Zschomler S. (2019), ‘“Language Is Your Dignity”: Migration, Linguistic Capital, and the Experience of Re/De-Valuation. Languages’, 4(3):64. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4030064

Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) conference editions

The Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) conference is a biennial event. Here is a list of the editions of the TaLC conference, along with the year and the university where it took place. In bold, those editions I attended.

Volumes published with selected research from the conferences are also included.

1994 – Lancaster University, UK. Teaching and Language Corpora. Originally published in 1997. Routledge new edition 2013.
1996 – Lancaster University, UK
1998 – Keble College, Oxford, UK
2000 – Graz, Austria
2002 – Bertinoro, Italy
2004 – 6th TaLC Conference. Granada, Spain. Hidalgo, E., Quereda, L. & Santana, J. (eds.) (2007). Corpora in the foreign language classroom. Rodopi.
2006 – Paris, France
2008 – Lisbon, Portugal
2010 – Brno, Czech Republic
2012 – 10th TalC Conference. Warsaw, Poland Leńko-Szymańska, A. & Boulton, A. (eds.). (2015) Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning. John Benjamins.
2014 – 11th TalC Conference. Lancaster University, UK
2016 – 12th TalC Conference. Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
2018 – 13th TalC Conference. University of Cambridge, UK (URL) Pérez-Paredes, P. & Mark, G. (eds.) (2021). Beyond concordance lines: applications of corpora in language education. John Benjamins. And Charles, M., & Frankenberg-Garcia, A. (2021). Corpora in ESP/EAP Writing Instruction. Routledge London.
2020 – 14th TalC Conference.University of Perpignan (held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
2022 – 15th TalC Conference. University of Limerick, Ireland (URL)

2024- 16th TalC Conference. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (URL)

Computer Assisted Language Learning at the crossroads of AI and new ecologies for language education

Invited talk : 16^th EdukCircle International Convention on Education Studies. The Philippines. May 11, 2024.

Abstract

Language learning has become extremely diverse and complex since the outbreak of the Internet in the late 1990s and mobile technology in the 2010s. The role of computers has transitioned from tutors and assistants to facilitators of communication and, more recently, to key players in digital literacies, new ecologies of digital learning (Gee & Hayes, 2011) and emerging sites for language learning (Godwin-Jones, 2021, 2023). These new ecologies and sites have disrupted traditional instructed approaches to the use of technology for language learning. The sites include, among others, AI chatbots (Kohnke et al., 2023), general AI-driven web services, and augmented reality (AR). These new digital ecologies support self-initiated learning, informal and non-formal learning (Conole & Pérez-Paredes, 2017), as well as digital literacies (Kern, 2021), favouring a usage-driven and user-centered L2 pedagogy (Pérez-Paredes & Zhang, 2022). Research has not, unfortunaltely, paid enough attention to these areas (Choubsaz, Jalilifar & Boulton, 2024). In this talk I survey some of the latest trends in technology-enhanced language education, paying special attention to the use of emerging learning sites and ecologies in formal instruction.

Some references

Conole, G. & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2017). Adult language learning in informal settings and the role of mobile learning. In Yu, S., Ally, M., & Tsinakos, A. (Eds.). Mobile and ubiquitous learning. An international handbook. New York: Springer, pp.45-58.

Choubsaz, Y., Jalilifar, A., & Boulton, A. (2024). A longitudinal analysis of highly cited papers in four CALL journals. ReCALL, 36(1), 40–57. doi:10.1017/S0958344023000137

Gee, J., and Hayes, E. (2011). Language and learning in the digital age. London: Routledge.

Gillespie, J. (2020). CALL research: Where are we now?, ReCALL, 32(2): 127-144.

Godwin-Jones, R. (2011). Mobile Apps for language learning, Language Learning & Technology,15: 2-11.

Godwin-Jones, R. (2021). Evolving technologies for language learning, Language Learning & Technology, 25(3): 6–26.

Godwin-Jones, R. (2023). Emerging spaces for language learning: AI bots, ambient intelligence, and the metaverse, Language Learning & Technology, 27(2): 6-27.

Kern, R. (2021). Twenty-five years of digital literacies in CALL. Language Learning & Technology, 25(3), 132–150.

Kohnke, L., Moorhouse, B. L., & Zou, D. (2023). ChatGPT for language teaching and learning. Relc Journal, 54(2), 537-550.

Pérez-Paredes, P. and Zhang, D., (2022). Mobile assisted language learning: Scope, praxis and theory, Porta Linguarum, IV: 11-25. DOI:10.30827/portalin.vi.21424

Stockwell, G. (2010). Using mobile phones for vocabulary activities: examining the effect of the platform, Language Learning & Technology, 14(2): 95-110.

Stockwell, G. (2022). Mobile-assisted language learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Data-driven learning in informal contexts? Embracing broad data-driven learning (BDDL) research

Pérez-Paredes, P. (2024) Data-driven learning in informal contexts? Embracing Broad Data-driven learning (BDDL) research. In Crosthwaite, P. (Ed.). Corpora for Language Learning: Bridging the Research-Practice Divide. Routledge.

In this chapter, I argue that it is necessary to pursue an analysis of DDL practices in the broader language learning context (Pérez-Paredes & Mark, 2022), particularly in informal contexts outside the university classroom.

We need to push the boundaries of DDL praxis and research outside the classroom if we are to gain a more comprehensive view of the contributions of DDL to language learning in the first half of the 21st century. It is essential to expand the ecological research model that has dominated DDL research so far, and which has thoroughly examined higher education (HE) contexts.

While instructed, formal language learning continues to be central to language learners’ experiences, new sites of learning and technologies emerge sometimes unexpectedly (e.g. the impact of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 was surprising, and it is probably too soon to evaluate its impact on language education).

I use the term “prototypical DDL” (Boulton, 2015) to refer to DDL that is designed by an expert in corpus linguistics and which takes place in the context of instructed second language acquisition (SLA) as part of a module or an official programme, typically in a higher education institution (HEI).

The term “broad DDL” (BDDL) refers to pedagogical natural language processing resources (P-NLPRs) for language learning (see Pérez- Paredes et al., 2018). BDDL makes use of a wide range of existing resources such as online dictionaries, text analysis and text processing tools, vocabulary-oriented websites and apps, translation services, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools for language learning across a variety of contexts, including self-directed uses.

It also involves the use of informal language learning against the backdrop of digital learning, characterized by a new ecology of reading and writing, multitasking and the emergence of a new literate social formation (Pérez-Paredes & Zhang, 2022) where communication processes are transitioning towards “dialogic interactions [less] subject to the power of institutions to set standards of knowledge, procedure, and truth based on their control of written texts” (Gee & Hayes, 2011, p. 125).

In BDDL, corpora are one of the many resources available to language learners. While some research has examined the use of Google as a web corpus and a concordancer (Sun, 2007; Sha, 2010; Pérez-Paredes et al., 2012; Boulton, 2015), this has mostly happened in instructed SLA contexts. The impact of other P-NLPRs in informal learning remains largely unexplored (see Crosthwaite & Boulton, 2023 for a discussion of some of these resources).

User-generated activity using personal devices such as phones or tablets treasure the potential to inform designed activity and, most significantly, what we know about learners’ interactions with content online (Kukulska-Hulme et al., 2007). P-NLPRs have the potential to foster autonomy, personalization, induction and authenticity and may offer an alternative to prototypical DDL corpora when engaging with BDLL (Pérez-Paredes et al., 2018, 2019).

There are three areas, at least, that will benefit from an examination of BDDL practices in informal learning: The exploration of new sites of language learning engagement; New opportunities to increase our understanding of the cognitive processes involved in statistical language learning; and the study and analysis of the role of new corpora in informal settings.

Thanks to Carolina Tavares de Carvalho, Daniela Terenzi & Alejandro Curado Fuentes for providing their insights

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