Thursday, 28 August 2008
Sketch Engine workshop
At Eurocall 2008 in Hungary, I will be giving a 3 hour workshop at Eurocall introducing the Sketch Engine for pedagogical purposes. This concordancer is used by a great number of people and for a wide range of reasons from lexicography to classroom language teaching. What I most like about it is the fact that it is totally web-based. Oh and the speed - it can process complex queries on huge corpora online in seconds and less.
Monday, 25 August 2008
Collostructional analysis
Collostructional analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "(i) it measures not the association of words to words, but of words to syntactic patterns or constructions; thus, it takes syntactic structure more seriously than most collocation-based analyses" ....
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Authenticating corpora for language learning: a problem and its resolution -- Mishan 58 (3): 219 -- ELT Journal
Authenticating corpora for language learning: a problem and its resolution -- Mishan 58 (3): 219 -- ELT Journal This paper questions the assumption that corpora are authentic, with particular reference to their application in language pedagogy.
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
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