Category: corpus linguistics

Understanding register: 5 basic references

 

Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., & Finegan, E. (1999). Longman grammar of spoken and written language. Harlow: Longman.

Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2009). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge University Press.

Biber, D., Conrad, S., & Cortes, V. (2004). If you look at…: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Applied linguistics, 25(3), 371-405.

Biber, D., & Gray, B. (2015). Grammatical complexity in academic English: Linguistic change in writing. Cambridge University Press.

Biber, D., Egbert, J., & Davies, M. (2015). Exploring the composition of the searchable web: a corpus-based taxonomy of web registers. Corpora, 10(1), 11-45.

5 recent papers on Data-driven learning

 

Requested by one of my students, a selection of 5 recent papers on Data-driven learning and the use of corpora in language education.

 

Ballance, O. J. (2017). Pedagogical models of concordance use: correlations between concordance user preferences. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 30(3-4), 259-283. (Link)

Boulton, A. (2017). Corpora in language teaching and learning. Language Teaching, 50(4), 483-506. (Link)

Boulton, A., & Cobb, T. (2017). Corpus Use in Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis. Language Learning, 67(2), 348-393. (Link)

Godwin-Jones, R. (2017). Data-informed language learning. Language Learning & Technology, 21(3), 9–27. (Link)

Lee, H., Warschauer, M., & Lee, J. H. (2018). The Effects of Corpus Use on Second Language Vocabulary Learning: A Multilevel Meta-analysis. Applied Linguistics. (Link)