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An introduction to CIABATTA: Increasing accessibility to corpus creation for non-experts CIABATTA 简介：提高非专业人员创建语料库的便利性

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100146

Larissa Goulart , Shelley Staples , Aleksey Novikov , Adriana Picoral , Randi Reppen

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Duoethnography and English for research publication purposes: Promises and challenges 以研究出版为目的的双重民族志和英语：承诺与挑战

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100148

Pejman Habibie , Richard D. Sawyer

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Building a corpus of student academic writing in EMI contexts: Challenges in corpus design and data collection across international higher education settings 建立 EMI 环境下的学生学术写作语料库：国际高等教育背景下语料库设计和数据收集的挑战

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100140

Dana Gablasova , Luke Harding , Raffaella Bottini , Vaclav Brezina , Haoshan (Sally) Ren , Giovanni Iamartino , Yingyu Li , Tanjun Liu , Laura Poggesi , Kristof Savski , Anuchit Toomaneejinda , Angela Zottola

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Comparative judgement for advancing research in applied linguistics 推进应用语言学研究的比较判断

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100142

Peter Thwaites , Magali Paquot

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The whole network approach to understanding language contact reporting inconsistency in peer interactions 用全网方法理解语言接触，报告同伴互动中的不一致性

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100139

Yi Wang

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Acoustic behavioral observation in study abroad research: A case study using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) 留学研究中的声音行为观察：使用电子激活录音机（EAR）的案例研究

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100138

Peter Ecke, Wojtek Gornicki, Matthias R. Mehl

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Epistemologies of corpus linguistics across disciplines 跨学科的语料库语言学认识论

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100141

Pascual Pérez-Paredes , Niall Curry

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Challenges and possibilities in compiling Aeronautical English corpora: The case of the Aerocorpus 编纂航空英语语料库的挑战与可能性：Aerocorpus 案例

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100135

Patricia Tosqui-Lucks , Malila Carvalho de Almeida Prado , Aline Pacheco , Angela Carolina de Moraes Garcia , Ana Lucia Tavares Monteiro

{"title":"Challenges and possibilities in compiling Aeronautical English corpora: The case of the Aerocorpus","authors":"Patricia Tosqui-Lucks , Malila Carvalho de Almeida Prado , Aline Pacheco , Angela Carolina de Moraes Garcia , Ana Lucia Tavares Monteiro","doi":"10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Authentic materials are an important resource for teaching and assessment, especially when it comes to English for Specific Purposes. To this end, corpus linguistics has developed a supporting role as it provides a wide range of possibilities for extracting and exploring authentic data. With regard to Aeronautical English (AE), which refers to oral communications between pilots and air traffic controllers (ATCOs), corpora offer substantial benefits in the development of teaching and testing materials. However, putting together corpora in the context of AE faces challenges in availability, selection, compilation, and copyright issues as some countries limit access to radiotelephony communications due to their sensitive content. This paper reports the experience of compiling a collaborative corpus called “Aerocorpus” proposed during two webinars held for AE teachers and testers from all over the world. The compilation methodology aims to address the aforementioned challenges and offer alternative solutions. Despite existing limitations, we see considerable gains in using authentic materials and are looking into ways of protecting the “black box” containing sensitive information while continuing to compile the corpus, which currently features 38,135 words from 45 situations, and to make it available to a wider community of AE professionals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101075,"journal":{"name":"Research Methods in Applied Linguistics","volume":"3 3","pages":"Article 100135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141732097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Syntactic engagement of new words: The garden-path method applied to track sensitivity to structural ambiguity 新词的句法参与：应用花园路径法跟踪对结构模糊性的敏感性

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100137

Verónica García-Castro , Norbert Vanek

{"title":"Syntactic engagement of new words: The garden-path method applied to track sensitivity to structural ambiguity","authors":"Verónica García-Castro , Norbert Vanek","doi":"10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article proposes an innovative approach to examining garden-path (GP) effects in sentence processing. It applies GP effects as a method to a new domain, specifically to syntactic engagement of recently learned verbs. We tested twenty-seven English native speakers and twenty Spanish learners of English to verify method validity. Three main components characterise the method, namely training of new word meaning through definitions and example sentences, eye-tracking while reading plausible and implausible GP sentences after sleep consolidation, and a meaning recall test. We also examined if participants’ phonological working memory and vocabulary size play a role in how they syntactically engage new words. Results showed that recently learned verbs can elicit syntactic engagement in both native and nonnative readers. Both vocabulary size and phonological working memory capacity could predict ambiguity reprocessing, irrespective of language group. These results indicate that garden pathing can reliably signal effort to detect and resolve subject-object ambiguities in both first language (Frazier & Rayner, 1982; Pickering & Traxler, 1998) and second language readers (Chen <em>et al</em>., 2021, Jegerski, 2012). This feasibility study is a pioneering attempt to map new vocabulary knowledge as a window into emergent structural representations. The significance of this method lies in its potential to track syntactic engagement of new lexis, while accounting for individual differences, and following the principle that to know a word entails knowing its form, meaning, as well as its grammatical use (Nation, 2001).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101075,"journal":{"name":"Research Methods in Applied Linguistics","volume":"3 3","pages":"Article 100137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772766124000430/pdfft?md5=d385a577594f68f81f8add3b92a5083a&pid=1-s2.0-S2772766124000430-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141732096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Validating the multi-dimensional structure of self-efficacy beliefs in peer feedback for L2 writing: A bifactor-exploratory structural equation modeling approach 验证第二语言写作同伴反馈中自我效能信念的多维结构：双因素-探索性结构方程建模方法

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100136

Mark Feng Teng , Lin Sophie Teng

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