34.1642, FYI: Corpus Linguistics: What is it and how can it help with English Language Teaching and Learning?

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1642. Thu May 25 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1642, FYI: Corpus Linguistics: What is it and how can it help with English Language Teaching and Learning?

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Date: 26-May-2023
From: Anthony Picot [a.picot at mmu.ac.uk]
Subject: Corpus Linguistics: What is it and how can it help with English Language Teaching and Learning?


Corpus linguistics: What is it and how can it help with English
language teaching and learning?
Dr Niall Curry, Manchester Metropolitan University

Date: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Time: 4pm – 5.15pm UK time
Venue: This is a free online event.

Register here (RSVP): https://www.natesol.org/event-details/corpus-lin
guistics-what-is-it-and-how-can-it-help-with-english-language-teaching
-and-learning
Corpus linguistics is a branch of linguistic research that involves
the study of principled collections of spoken and written language
texts, known as corpora. This area of research 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 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.

Bio: Dr Niall Curry is Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Applied
Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, specialising in
corpus and applied linguistics, contrastive linguistics, discourse
analysis, and TESOL. He has published a monograph, book chapters, and
articles in field leading journals. He is PI and Co-I on a number of
funded projects and he is Managing Editor of the Journal of Academic
Writing, Section Editor of the Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Language and
Linguistics, and a Géras International Correspondent. He regularly
writes blogs for teachers and practitioners, aiming to bridge research
and practice through the production of activities and lesson plans on
a variety of topics. You can find a collection of his blogs and
materials here: https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/author/niall-curry/
.

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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