Applied Corpus Linguistics最新文献

{"title":"Corpus-aided EAP writing workshops to support international scholarly publication","authors":"Ana Frankenberg-Garcia ,&nbsp;Paula Tavares Pinto ,&nbsp;Ana Eliza Pereira Bocorny ,&nbsp;Simone Sarmento","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Writing for international scholarly publication is hard, and arguably harder for researchers with English as an additional language. English teachers could help them, but most teachers have little or no experience of research writing or the specialized languages researchers use. This study trialled and evaluated workshops for Brazilian researchers and English teachers learning together to use corpora and corpus-based tools to develop autonomy in writing and teaching academic English writing for scholarly publication.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100029"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799122000144/pdfft?md5=fa1c82c2ee110a621abaa295dc402598&pid=1-s2.0-S2666799122000144-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47583185","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}

{"title":"Review of Durrant, Brenchley, and McCallum (2021) Understanding development and proficiency in writing: Quantitative corpus linguistic approaches","authors":"Ashleigh Cox","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100024"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47207770","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}

{"title":"Teaching, learning, and researching with corpora","authors":"Tove Larsson ,&nbsp;Shelley Staples ,&nbsp;Jesse Egbert","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100025"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799122000107/pdfft?md5=f51d5341aae2c12e60f6219cf05a08ee&pid=1-s2.0-S2666799122000107-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46245949","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}

{"title":"Principled pattern curation to guide data-driven learning design","authors":"Anne O'Keeffe ,&nbsp;Geraldine Mark","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Insights from corpus linguistics (CL) have informed language learning and materials design, among many other areas. An important nexus between CL and language learning is the use of Data-Driven Learning (DDL), which draws on the use of corpus data in the classroom and which brings opportunities for inductive language discovery.</p><p>Within the ethos of DDL, learners are encouraged to discover patterns of language and, in so doing, foster more complex cognitive processes such as making inferences. While many studies on DDL concur on the success of this approach, it is still perceived as a marginal practice. Its success so far has been largely limited to intermediate to advanced level learners in higher education settings (Boulton and Cobb 2017). This paper aims to offer guiding principles for how DDL might have wider application across all levels (not just at Intermediate and above) and to set out exemplars for their application at different levels of proficiency. Based on insights from second language acquisition (SLA) and learner corpus research (LCR), the focus of this paper will be on identifying principles for the curation of language patterns that are differentiated for stage of learning. In particular, we are keen to build on recent and important work which looks at SLA through the lens of the usage-based (UB) models (that is, models that view language as being acquired through the use of and exposure to language).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100028"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799122000132/pdfft?md5=f53afdebc49d6e7b54500fd05f50d11b&pid=1-s2.0-S2666799122000132-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49216980","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}

{"title":"Classification and identification level ambiguity in error annotation","authors":"Alexandros Tantos,&nbsp;Nikolaos Amvrazis","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The vast majority of corpus annotation projects goes through a piloting phase in which the annotation scheme is gradually shaped through iterative annotation cycles until its final version is produced and applied to the collected data. The differences in annotators’ choices are usually recorded and reflected by the ‘Inter-annotator Agreement’ (IAA) that serves as a proxy to understand and resolve the raised issues. However, little has been reported on how to formulate a systematic approach to: (i) tracing the source of the differences in the annotators’ choices and (ii) provide attainable solutions that would considerably increase IAA. In this paper, the ‘Greek Learner Corpus II’ (GLCII) -the largest online greek learner corpus will serve as a basis to shed light on two commonly met types of ambiguity in error annotation that are closely related to target languages in which syncretism is ubiquitous in grammar (e.g., Greek and Romanian): a classification level and an identification level ambiguity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100035"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46834109","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}

{"title":"A tutorial on norming linguistic stimuli for clinical populations","authors":"Oliver Delgaram-Nejad ,&nbsp;Gerasimos Chatzidamianos ,&nbsp;Dawn Archer ,&nbsp;Alex Bartha ,&nbsp;Louise Robinson","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Stimuli norming (the process of controlling experimental items to minimise bias) is important for the validity of psycholinguistic experiments. Survey norming (asking large numbers of people to rate or otherwise define the items) is typically used for this purpose but requires large samples. Clinical populations are not always large, nor easy to reach. Clinical participants often have ongoing symptomatology, and some cohorts experience language and communication difficulties. We present a corpus-linguistic method suitable for clinical populations for which survey norming is difficult or inappropriate. We also include the experiment generated, which measures metaphor-creation behaviour in schizophrenia to test Cognitive Constraint Theory (CCT) in clinical and nonclinical populations (see S2.1). We describe the design rationale before outlining the design stages in tutorial form. This allows us to show readers why the approach was needed and support them to consider and respond to the challenges that we encountered. We conclude that it is easier to consider norming and design practices in parallel when experimental units are defined linguistically. Corpus stimuli norming provides a versatile alternative when survey norming is prohibitive, especially in speech pathology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100022"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799122000077/pdfft?md5=40b8aaab346c1faa805c35598a6254f4&pid=1-s2.0-S2666799122000077-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45726550","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}

{"title":"","authors":"Jamie McKeown","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100034"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46229291","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}

{"title":"Comparing the situational and linguistic characteristics of first year writing and engineering writing","authors":"Shelley Staples ,&nbsp;Ashley JoEtta","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>First year writing (FYW) courses aim to prepare students for disciplinary writing. However, research suggests that FYW often fails to provide sufficient preparation for writing across genres and disciplines (Leki, 2007). A register-functional approach to corpus linguistics has elucidated key differences across disciplines and genres for both published and student academic writing (Biber and Gray, 2016; Staples et al., 2016; Staples and Reppen, 2016). To date, however, no studies have compared these features across FYW and First Year Engineering (FYE) writing.</p><p>This research uses a corpus of FYE and FYW texts developed by the authors. The subset for this study includes papers written by undergraduate students majoring in Engineering and taking FYE and FYW courses in the same semester. Technical Briefs (TB) and Design Reports (DR) were selected from the FYE corpus and Rhetorical Analysis (RA) and Research Reports (RR) from the FYW corpus. We investigated the situational context and normed frequencies of linguistic features hypothesized to show similarities and differences.</p><p>Our situational analysis shows key differences in characteristics of the RA and TB, particularly regarding audiences (clients for the TB, and instructors for the RA) and the object of analysis (advertisements for the RA and mathematical models for the TB). There were more similarities between the RR and DR, including a shared focus on a solution to a problem and the presence of both a methods and results section. Results from the linguistic analysis show the impact of the situational characteristics. For example, conditional clauses and premodifying nouns were used at similar rates of occurrence in the DR and RR, reflecting their inclusion of research questions and their sharing detailed information about the problem and solution. Implications of these findings for teaching in these contexts will be discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799122000168/pdfft?md5=495e055e62e32825e71ff86704ea1eec&pid=1-s2.0-S2666799122000168-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47181612","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}

{"title":"A corpus-assisted ecolinguistic analysis of the representations of tree/s and forest/s in US discourse from 1820-2019","authors":"Robert Poole ,&nbsp;Marco A. Micalay-Hurtado","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study presents a corpus-assisted ecolinguistic analysis of the evolving discursive representations of <em>tree/s</em> and <em>forest/s</em> in US American discourse from 1820 to 2019 in the approximately 475-million word Corpus of Historical American English (Davies, 2010). To explore these entities and their depictions in prevailing discourse, this study performs a diachronic collocation analysis of adjectives occurring with the terms across the span of the corpus. The analysis identified the 100 most frequent adjective collocates appearing with the singular and plural forms of <em>tree/s</em> and <em>forest/s</em><span> and calculated Kendall's tau correlation coefficient<span> scores using decade-by-decade per million use rates in order to empirically assess the strength of trends in language use. The findings indicate a divergence in broadly positive and negative representations over the time span as adjectives construing poor health and lack of vitality are rising while adjectives conveying positive attributes of size, beauty, and wellbeing are declining. In addition, adjectives reflecting experiential engagement with </span></span><em>tree/s</em> and <em>forest/s</em> have progressively been replaced by a discourse of scientific identification and governmental dominion.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100036"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48561654","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}

{"title":"Vocabulary in digital science resources for middle school learners","authors":"Rebeca Arndt","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This corpus-based study examined the vocabulary in a 2.7-million-token corpus composed of digital science resources for middle school (6–8 grade) students in the United States. The findings of this study show that to reach the suggested 95%–98% lexical coverage thresholds of the Digital Science Corpus (DSC) that are conventionally deemed to facilitate minimal and optimal reading comprehension (Laufer, 2020), middle school (MS) students grade 6–8 must recognize the first 6,000 and 14,000 most frequent word families in the BNC/COCA (Nation, 2012), respectively, plus proper nouns and marginal words. The results of the lexical analysis across the three sub-corpora in the DSC suggest that the Life Science sub-corpora has a considerably larger vocabulary load than the Physical Science and Earth and Space Science sub-corpora. Additionally, while 98.60% of the most frequent 1,000 BNC/COCA word families occurred at least six times in the DSC, the 2,000–7,000 BNC/COCA word families provided significantly fewer opportunities for repeated occurrence. Since more than half of the words in the 5,000–7,000 BNC/COCA bands occurred five times or less in the overall corpus, most words across these bands do not have high enough frequency in the digital science resources to allow MS students to learn them incidentally from reading the texts found in digital science resources. Several pedagogically relevant suggestions for middle school science teachers are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"2 3","pages":"Article 100023"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46760659","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}