Corpus linguistics: how can it help with English language teaching and learning? With Niall Curry
Corpus linguistics is a branch of linguistic research that involves the study of large collections of spoken and written language texts, known as corpora. This area of research takes a descriptive approach to language study and can help us to understand how language is used in a variety of contexts. Unsurprisingly, corpus linguistics plays a critical role in contemporary English language education and learner dictionaries, coursebooks, grammars, and language learning technologies across the world make use of corpora in myriad ways. Overall, the use of corpora in language education, indirectly, and the language classroom, directly, is continuing to grow. However, much of this work occurs in the background and, as such, we often gain very little insight into what corpus linguists do and how corpora can be used to produce learning experiences that are based on authentic, representative, and naturally occurring language. To shed a little light on the subject, in this short talk, I will discuss the role of corpus linguistics in language education, outline the opportunities it affords language teaching and learning, and signal the challenges we face when using corpora for English language teaching. In doing so, I will also discuss some useful tools that you can use to work with corpora yourself and some guidelines to help you get started with corpus linguistics.
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Thankyou for enlightening about this branch of linguistics. Very helpful for teachers of English!
Your video is very interesting and useful for me. Thank you very much!
Great points on the challenges and advantages of using corpora! Very informative
Nice topic! Greetings from Colombia
amazing explanation 😃😃😃😃
Nice topic.
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That s applied linguistics research based?
There are many open/free access corpora today, unlike 20-25 years ago. And yet, teachers don't apply corpus-based activities in class. A pity. The middle part of going from expert /research to actual teaching integration somehow fails... My opinion is that one big reason is that corpus researchers tend to get stuck in their own individual studies and academia, as linguistics is the expert area in which these teacher researchers dwell. And making that step from their world to the layman's world is hard for them. Also, anything requiring digital tools and inductive thinking is not as common as traditional teacher-fronted classrooms. In fact, even tools as simple as Google seen as a corpus are hard to see being used in class. Instead, teachers mostly direct students to use online dictionaries, glossaries, grammars, and so on: traditional approaches even if they are accessed digitally
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Great content but not a presentation but a read-out. Thanks anyway!
@esrasshi1895
10 ай бұрын
Not really, I don't think so as the slides have very short points and he explained all and got into detail! :)