This free MOOC Offers practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in social sciences and humanities. It is an 8-week course and is run by Lancaster University.
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#corpusMOOC Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation starts Sept 29
Posted: September 11, 2014 in corpus, corpus linguistics, English, English Language, learner corpus, learner language, learning, Manipulating text, MOOC, Recursos, research, researching corpus use, resources, Subjects at UMU, text analysis, text tools, text-analytics, universidad, www resources0
The Use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to Evaluate Compositions in the English Exam Section of the University Admission Examination.
Posted: January 4, 2013 in corpus linguistics, data, learner languageThe Use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to Evaluate Compositions
in the English Exam Section of the University Admission Examination. In Revista de Educación, 357, enero-abril 2012.
The use of intensifying adverbs in learner writing
Posted: October 12, 2012 in adverbs, corpus linguistics, learner language
Pérez-Paredes, P., & Díez-Bedmar, B. (2012). The use of intensifying adverbs in learner writing. In Y. Tono, Y. Kawaguchi, & M. Minegishi (Eds.),Developmental and Crosslinguistic Perspectives in Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam/Philadelphia,: John Benjamins.
The evidence is now in: the explicit teaching of grammar rules leads to better learning
Posted: September 19, 2012 in applied linguistics, computer-mediated communication, ELT, investigación, language teaching, learner language, learning, SLA
According to The Guardian there is evidence that the explicit teaching of grammar rules leads to better learning. Nothing that surprises researchers in Form-focused instruction. The article has been written by Dr Catherine Walter, Lecturer in applied linguistics at the University of Oxford, co-author with Michael Swan of the Oxford English Grammar Course.
What really interests me is the fact that such specialized topic has been discussed in a newspaper. I must say that we find these days more and more linguistics in everyday media and news, possibly one of the effects of globalization, “viral” language learning and the attention to apllied sciences.
Pascual Pérez-Paredes academic blog 