scholarly journals Corpus linguistics and its aplications in higher education

Author(s):  
Miguel Fuster Márquez ◽  
Begoña Clavel Arroitia

The aim of this paper is to review and analyse relevant factors related to the implementation of corpus linguistics (CL) in higher education. First we set out to describe underlying principles of CL and its developments in relation to theoretical linguistics and its applications in modern teaching practices. Then we attempt to establish how different types of corpora have contributed to the development of direct and indirect approaches in language teaching. We single out Data Driven Learning (DDL) due to its relevance in applied linguistics literature, and examine in detail advantages and drawbacks. Finally, we outline problems concerning the implementation of CL in the classroom since awareness of the limitations of CL is vital for its future success.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Eska Perdana Prasetya ◽  
Anita Dewi Ekawati ◽  
Deni Sapta Nugraha ◽  
Ahmad Marzuq ◽  
Tiara Saputri Darlis

<span lang="EN-GB">This research is about Corpus Linguistics, Language Corpora, And Language Teaching. As we know about this science is relatively new and is associated with technology. There are several areas discussed in this study such as several important parts of the corpus, the information generated in the corpus, four main characteristics of the corpus, Types of Corpora, Corpora in Language Teaching, several types that could be related to corpus research, Applications of corpus linguistics to language teaching may be direct or indirect. The field of applied linguistics analyses large collections of written and spoken texts, which have been carefully designed to represent specific domains of language use, such as informal speech or academic writing.</span>


ReCALL ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascual Pérez-Paredes ◽  
Jose M. Alcaraz-Calero

AbstractAlthough annotation is a widely-researched topic in Corpus Linguistics (CL), its potential role in Data Driven Learning (DDL) has not been addressed in depth by Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) practitioners. Furthermore, most of the research in the use of DDL methods pays little attention to annotation in the design and implementation of corpus-based/driven language teaching.In this paper, we set out to examine the process of development of SACODEYL Annotator, an application that seeks to assist SACODEYL system users in annotating XML multilingual corpora. First, we discuss the role of annotation in DDL and the dominating paradigm in general corpus applications. In the context of the language classroom, we argue that it is essential that corpora should be pedagogically motivated (Braun, 2005 and 2007a). Then, we move on to deal with the analysis and design stages of our annotation solution by illustrating its main features. Some of these include a user friendly hierarchical and extensible taxonomy tree to facilitate the learner-oriented annotation of the corpora; real-time graphics representation of the annotated corpus matching the XML TEI-compliant (Text Encoding Initiative) standard, as well as an intuitive management of the different data sections and associated metadata.SACODEYL (System Aided Compilation and Open Distribution of European Youth Language) is an EU funded MINERVA project which aims to develop an ICT-based system for the assisted compilation and open distribution of multimedia European teen talk in the context of language education. This research lays emphasis on the functionalities of the application within the SACODEYL context. However, our paper addresses similarly the needs of potential multimedia language corpus administrators in general on the lookout for powerful annotation assisting software. SACODEYL Annotator is free to use and can be downloaded from our website.


2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Diane Nagatomo

Japanese teachers of English in Japanese higher education are an under-researched, yet a highly influential group of teachers. A yearlong case study with one teacher, a literature specialist who is relatively new at teaching English, was conducted. Through multiple interviews and classroom observations, it was found that the teacher’s beliefs toward language learning and language teaching are deeply rooted in how she successfully learned English and are shaped by her love for literature. The paper concludes with a call for more qualitative and quantitative research investigating the teaching practices and the English pedagogical beliefs of Japanese university English teachers in order to deepen our understanding of English language education in Japan. 日本の高等教育機関における日本人の英語教師の役割は大きいにもかかわらず、これまで十分に研究の対象になって来なかった。文学が専門の比較的経験の浅い1人の教師を対象として1年間、ケーススタディを行った。数回のインタビューおよび教室での観察を通じて、その教師の言語学習・言語教授についての本人の信条が、自分の英語学習における成功体験および文学への愛情に少なからず影響されていることが判明した。本論では、日本における英語教育の理解を深めるためには、大学教師がどのような教育を行っているか、どのような教育上の信念を持っているのかを、質的にも量的にもさらに研究する必要性があると結論づけている。


Author(s):  
Abeer Heider

The present chapter focuses on the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the higher education sector, presenting the case of the Arabic for Non-Native Speakers Center (ANNS) at Qatar University. It evaluates what actions the center has undertaken to pledge its integrity to the cause of higher education throughout the pandemic and considers a sample of students’ responses to a survey about the approaches and strategies adopted when learning shifted online. In order to speak to the book project rationale, the questions herein addressed concentrate on what has changed in language teaching practices as a result of COVID-19; on which changes might become permanent changes and which are expected to return to their pre-pandemic conditions; on reconsidered language pedagogy and new educational purposes and on informational progress for remote teaching. The chapter also aims to identify a number of techniques to be researched further.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Kai Bao

Corpus linguistics has become increasingly important to both language researchers and teachers over the past three decades. As a popular practice of corpus linguistics, Data-Driven Learning (DDL) sees a rapidly growing body of research as well as instruction in the field. There is, however, a lack of comprehensive literature reviews that summarize the effectiveness, learners’ perception, as well as factors affecting the success of DDL to guide its practices. In response, this study analyzes previous DDL research to show the feasibility of the activities in EFL classrooms. For the purpose, we collected and analyzed relevant research articles from 19 journals in the discipline of applied linguistics. Our analysis revealed that while DDL has been proved generally effective in improving learners’ target language proficiency with respect to a variety of linguistic aspects, a set of its drawbacks have been elicited from the learners. The results indicate the instructors’ need to take into account the learner as well as technique background before the introduction of DDL into their classrooms.


Author(s):  
Stephen Jeaco

One of the greatest impacts of corpus linguistics on language teaching has been in the recognition of the importance of collocation. A very influential guide for language teachers with regard to teaching collocation has been the Lexical Approach. Activities pointing students to rich collocational information in monolingual dictionaries, in texts and specifically in collocation dictionaries provided ways for language learners to engage with collocation information: to notice, to remember and to acquire. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Data Driven Learning and new tools are now available to allow students to access collocation information from corpora for themselves. After introducing some pedagogic considerations, this article presents some of the features of The Prime Machine which were developed to support DDL activities focussed on collocation.


2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-134
Author(s):  
John Swales

Partington has produced an attractive and useful introduction to the field of applied corpus linguistics, a field that has been around for 40 years (since the Brown corpus) but is only now coming into its own in the United States. The volume is attractive for three main reasons: it is clearly and pleasantly written, it quotes extensively and appropriately from the earlier general and applied linguistics literature, and it contains an impressive range of examples consisting of concordance lines followed by commentary and analysis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-111
Author(s):  
यादवराज उपाध्याय [Yadav Raj Upadhyay]

यस शोधन आलेखमा भाषा, भाषा विज्ञानको परिचय तथा शाखाहरूबारे चिनारी प्रस्तुत गर्दै पारिभाषिक शब्दावली र कोशीय प्रारूपबारे खोज विश्लेषण गरिएको छ । भावाभिव्यक्तिको संस्कृति विचार विनिमयको आधार भाषाका बारेमा वैज्ञानिक ढङ्गले अध्ययन गर्ने ज्ञानको शाखा नै भाषा विज्ञान हो । व्याकरण, भाषाशास्त्र हुँदै विकसित भाषा विज्ञानको संरचक पक्षका आधारमा ध्वनि विज्ञान, वणर् विज्ञान, व्याकरण (रूप, रूप सन्धि र वाक्य)  र अर्थ विज्ञान प्रमुख शाखाहरू हुन् । अध्ययन विश्लेषणको पद्धतिका आधारमा भाषा विज्ञानका ऐतिहासिक, तुलनात्मक र वणर्नात्मक प्रमुख तिन शाखाहरू छन् । सिद्धान्तकेन्द्री र प्रयोगकेन्द्री आधारमा भाषा विज्ञान सैद्धान्तिक र प्रायोगिक दुई प्रकारका हुन्छन् । भाषा शिक्षण, कोश विज्ञान, शैली विज्ञान, सामाजिक भाषा विज्ञान, मनोभाषा विज्ञान, अनुवाद विज्ञान, कम्प्युटर विज्ञान, व्यतिरेकी भाषा विज्ञान, सङ्कथन विश्लेषण आदि प्रायोगिक भाषा विज्ञानका प्रकारहरू हुन् । भाषाविज्ञानका यी शाखाहरूमा प्रयुक्त परिभाषाका माध्यमबाट बुझ्नु पर्ने सयांै पारिभाषिक तथा प्राविधिक शब्दावलीहरू छन् । यस्ता शब्दावलीहरूलाई शब्दकोशीय ढाँचामा पेस गर्न सकिने कोशीय प्रारूपको सीमित नमुना समेत यहाँ प्रस्तुत गरिएको छ । [Linguistic semantics and lexical structures have been discussed in this paper, introducing language, linguistics and its forms. Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure that is associated with the knowledge systems while communicating across cultures. It is a developed form of grammar, including other aspects of language such as sound system, letters, words, sentences and meanings. It has three main branches such as historical linguistics, comparative linguistics and descriptive linguistics. It can also be categorized into two types: theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics. There are other types of linguistics as well that include language teaching, lexicology, stylistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, computational linguistics and narratology are some examples of applied linguistics. Based on these branches of linguistics, there are hundreds of linguistic semantics to be leant in the study of language and its structure. In this paper, they are exemplified as lexical structures of language and linguistic semantics.]


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balčiūnaitienė Asta ◽  
Teresevičienė Margarita

Abstract The article aims to emphasize the role of foreign language teaching in fostering sustainable development competence in higher education. Foreign language classes enable students to analyze actual topics about sustainable development, to discuss problems, to share personal emotions and experiences. English as a foreign language curriculum aims to build students’ basic language communicative skills with the focus on sustainability, communication for the enhancement of sustainable development competence. The present paper aims to analyze the correlation of sustainable development competence between English as a foreign language studies in the system of higher education. The article overviews the importance of the sustainable development competence development on the theoretical level as well as introduces the practices of the importance of sustainable development competence elements in foreign language classes on the empirical level. The research was planned and performed in 5 universities of Lithuania, in which the respondents studying English (average age of participants was 22 years old) expressed their opinions on the sustainable development topics and usefulness of sustainable development competence. The results of the research demonstrate that students are more engaged in topics and materials on sustainable development and it is challenging for pedagogues to constantly update their materials, to apply innovative English as a foreign language teaching strategies related to sustainable development in foreign language classroom. Therefore, the research findings with the embedded elements for sustainable development competence development encourage educators to search for innovative ways of English as a foreign language teaching in higher education.


Author(s):  
Galina Grigor’evna Korsakova ◽  
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Natal’ya Vyacheslavovna Zinevich ◽  
Zhanna Petrovna Popadina ◽  
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