Some thoughts on corpora and second-language acquisition

Johansson, Stig

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“…Johansson (2009) is strongly arguing for the effective relevance of corpora in language teaching. Furthermore, frequency data combined with lines of concordances that expose the verbal environment allow great opportunities for linguistic research.…”

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“…On the contrary, corpus can present statistically proven evidence of the language actually used which explains the new approaches relying on corpora in language teaching field. For example, according to Johansson (2009), corpora can hugely impact language teaching in the various fields summarized in Figure 4 below.…”

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“…Corpora can hugely impact language teaching in various fields because of its ability to present statistically proven evidence of the used language. This resulted in many incorporations of corpora in language teaching fields (Johansson, 2009;Leńko-Szymańska, 2014).…”

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The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

Almutairi¹

2016

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Using corpora in language teaching has revolutionized language research with its 'authentic' appeal. Corpus tools have enabled linguistic researchers and teachers to investigate actual usages and the characteristics of certain genres in order to improve syllabus design and infer more effective classroom exercises. From this perspective, this paper attempts to use corpus tools to investigate the characteristics of one of the most important requirements of university programs admissions which is the personal statement. Despite the immense importance of writing a personal statement in the lives of students wanting to enroll in universities, little research has been conducted on its instructions. More importantly, teaching its features to university students has been neglected although personal statements are an essential genre that should be emphasized in academic writing classes or university preparation courses. The paper aims to investigate if compiling a corpus of personal statements can lead to creating an effective corpus-based activities to be taught in teaching writing a personal statement. Then the paper attempts to evaluate the pedagogical implications of using corpus-based activities and criticized the weaknesses and strengths of corpora as a resource in language teaching. This paper chose to focus on personal statements collected from law students due to the high demand on law colleges in Saudi Arabia and the difficulty of admission requirements. This study used Sketch Engine® to complie a corpus of sixty-seven personal statement with a total word count of 50, 691, then analysed the lexio-grammatical features. The results were used to create corpus-based excersises to be taught in writing courses teaching personal statements.

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The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

Almutairi¹

2016

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“…Some understanding of the properties of the genre of academic writing in the Indonesian context has been sought for, e.g., [4-6, 8, 24, 27, 34]. Despite the handful studies on academic genre in the Indonesian context and many others outside of Indonesia, e.g., [1,10,16,21,23,25,26,33], to our knowledge, little attention, if any, has been given to the typical uses of the expressions showing expectations.…”

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“It is expected …” BETWEEN RELIGIOSITY AND EVIDENTIALITY

Basthomi¹,

Yannuar²,

Hidayati³

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The present study is focused on analyzing the uses of some expressions showing expectations in academic texts. A corpus-based study specifically dealing with the uses of the verbs "expect" and "hope", this project seeks to understand the phenomenon as reflected in C-SMILE (Corpus of State University of Malang Indonesian Learners' English). Analyzing the corpus of about 6 million words composed of texts of undergraduate theses written in English by Indonesian EFL learners, this study has arrived at an interpretive point that Indonesian cultural norms are influential to the manifestation of the expressions. The expressions reflect some degree of the writers' religiosity. This unfortunately also suggests a lacking point of evidentiality in academic written works.

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“…The period of modern corpus linguistics commenced with the work of Charles Fries in 1980s via his collection of spoken English through recording 250,000 words of telephone conversations. However, the corpus had to wait a lot longer time until it came into its own years when descriptive linguists and some moderate generative grammarians commenced to value the true worth of corpora in the study of the English language (Johansson, 2015;Römer, 2009). …”

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A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Malaysian ESL Learners and Native English Speakers in Compliment Patterns

Paramasivam¹,

Farashaiyan²

2017

IJL

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Even though many language learners are concerned with to master target proficiency, owing to years of meticulous studies, immersion in TL environments, access to multimedia and educational amenities, in addition to availability of affluent sources or merely thanks to Godgiven language talents, many will seldom take off from conspicuous learner-language and might never produce authentic language either in speech or in writing. In recent years, however, with corpus linguistics gaining currency in academia, a new light has begun to glimmer at the end of the tunnel that corpus-based materials and data-driven language instructions can actively and consciously engage learners and acquaint them with what authentic language is rather than what the text books prescribe it to be. Already, a growing body of research has been dedicated to data-driven learning across the world to survey the effectiveness of incorporating corpora in ELT. As such, the purpose of this research is to investigate the patterns of compliments in writings of the Malay ESL students and compare the findings with native English speakers. The results showed that the Malay ESL learners used a rather different number of syntactic patterns compared to the English native speakers International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2017 www.macrothink.org/ijl 233 and their frequency of patterns outgrew those of the natives.

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Some thoughts on corpora and second-language acquisition

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The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

The Effectiveness of Corpus- Based Approach to Language Description in Creating Corpus-Based Exercises to Teach Writing Personal Statements

“It is expected …” BETWEEN RELIGIOSITY AND EVIDENTIALITY

A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Malaysian ESL Learners and Native English Speakers in Compliment Patterns

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