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<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2>I'm looking for articles
dealing with the topic "The Language Learner as Researcher". I'm aware of
the large body of research and publications dealing with the topic of using
corpora to teach the L2 to learners, such as those listed at <A
href="http://lingo.lancs.ac.uk/devotedto/corpora/misc.htm">http://lingo.lancs.ac.uk/devotedto/corpora/misc.htm</A>.
What I'm looking for, however, is something a bit more
narrow:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2>-- The language learners are
advanced students</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2>-- The language learners carry
out their own research on topics of interest, rather than in-class activities
designed by the professor</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2>-- The research deals
(preferably) with advanced issues in syntax, rather than basic collocational
patterns, etc.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2>-- (If possible) The research
is based on large corpora, such as the BNC, BoE, Corpus del Espaņol, CREA,
etc.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2>A concrete example of what I'm
talking about is the "Variation in Spanish Syntax" class that I'm offering right
now on the web (<A
href="http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/sintaxis">http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/sintaxis</A>).
In this class, advanced students (many of them high school teachers) use several
corpora of Spanish and search tools like Google to carry out their own research
on a wide range of topics relating to syntactic variation in Spanish.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>I'm particularly
interested in the **methodology** that L2 learners use in carrying out their
research -- i.e. how they learn to carry out searches on the corpora, how they
make hypotheses about the data in question, how they test these hypotheses,
etc. The basic issue, of course, is that of getting students to shift from
language _learner_ to language _researcher_, and to follow the correct
methodology in order to make valid claims about the L2.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2>So what I'm looking for are
courses (or parts of courses) that are roughly comparable to what I'm teaching
right now. I'm aware of the work by Claire Kennedy & Tiziana Miceli of
Griffith University and am also aware of the contents of the most recent three
TALC conferences. But starting points for research from any other venues
would be most appreciated.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2>Mark Davies</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=078130208-22102002></SPAN><FONT
size=2>=======================================<BR>Mark Davies, Associate
Professor, Spanish Linguistics<BR><A
href="http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/">http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>4300 Foreign Languages / Illinois State
University</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Normal, IL 61790-4300<BR>309-438-7975 (voice) / 309-438-8038
(fax)</FONT><FONT
size=2><BR>=======================================</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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