Language, Learning & Technology articles from September 2001

Language, Learning & Technology archives from September 2001

About Language Learning & Technology.
September 1, 2001... Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the U.S. and around the world on issues related to technology and...

From the Editors.
September 1, 2001... This is a special issue of Language Learning & Technology on using corpora in language teaching and learning. The Guest Editors, Christopher Tribble and Michael Barlow, have written an Introduction to the issue. In addition to the fine...

From the Special Issue Editors.
September 1, 2001... This Special Issue of Language Learning and Technology has been in the making for many months. We feel it has been worth the effort, and hope that our readers do, too. If you've never used corpus tools in your teaching or learning, we hope that...

ON THE NET : Finding Song Lyrics Online.
September 1, 2001... Most foreign language teachers enjoy studying song lyrics as authentic text in their classes. Songs can be used at all levels and for a wide variety of activities and purposes such as comprehension, vocabulary introduction, illustration or...

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES : Tools and Trends in Corpora Use for Teaching and Learning.
September 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION Language corpora have long been exploited for language instruction. Vocabulary lists for learners, for example, have been generated from corpora, and word counts derived from corpus analysis have helped in defining goals for...

NEWS FROM SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS.
September 1, 2001... This page includes announcements from the organizations sponsoring LLT. University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Less commonly taught languages, particularly those of Asia and the Pacific, are the focus...

Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research -- (From the series Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics, No 22).(Review)
September 1, 2001... Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research -- (From the series Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics, No 22) Simon P. Botley, Anthony M. McEnery, and Andrew Wilson, Eds. 2000 ISBN: 90-420-0541-6 US $19.00...

Patterns and Meanings: Using Corpora for English Language Research and Teaching.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Patterns and Meanings: Using Corpora for English Language Research and Teaching Alan Partington Studies in Corpus Linguistics Elena Tognini-Bonelli, series editor: 1998 ISBN 1 55619 396 3 US $ 27.95 (paperback) 163 + vii...

Exploring Academic English: A Workbook for Student Essay Writing.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Exploring Academic English: A Workbook for Student Essay Writing Jennifer Thurstun and Christopher Candlin 1997 ISBN 1-864083-74-3 AU $23.95 144 pp. NCELTR Sydney, Australia Exploring Academic English is an...

MONOCONC PRO AND WORDSMITH TOOLS.
September 1, 2001... REVIEW OF MONOCONCPRO AND WORDSMITH TOOLS Title MonoCone Pro Version 2.0 Developer Platform PC Hardware/ System Windows 95 or higher Requirements Program Information Publisher ...

GENRES, REGISTERS, TEXT TYPES, DOMAINS, AND STYLES: CLARIFYING THE CONCEPTS AND NAVIGATING A PATH THROUGH THE BNC JUNGLE.
September 1, 2001... ABSTRACT In this paper, an attempt is first made to clarify and tease apart the somewhat confusing terms genre, register, text type, domain, sublanguage, and style. The use of these terms by various linguists and literary theorists working...

TEXT CATEGORIES AND CORPUS USERS: A RESPONSE TO DAVID LEE.
September 1, 2001... In designing any corpus, it is necessary to decide what types of texts to include, and how many of each type. (I use the term "text type" as a neutral one which does not imply any specific theoretical stance.) The British National Corpus...

AN EVALUATION OF INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS' APPROACHES TO CORPUS INVESTIGATION.
September 1, 2001... ABSTRACT This paper reports on our experience in using a corpus of our own compilation, Contemporary Written Italian Corpus (CWIC), in teaching intermediate students at Griffith University in Australia. After an overview of the corpus...

LOOKING AT CITATIONS: USING CORPORA IN ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Appropriate reference to other texts is an essential feature of most academic writing, and we should expect courses in academic writing to sensitize students to the choices that are available to them when they decide to refer to...

LEXICAL BEHAVIOUR IN ACADEMIC AND TECHNICAL CORPORA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ESP DEVELOPMENT.
September 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Lexical approaches to Academic and Technical English have been well documented by scholars from as early as Cowie (1978). More recent work demonstrates how computer technology can assist in the effective analysis of corpus-based...

TEACHING GERMAN MODAL PARTICLES: A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH.
September 1, 2001... ABSTRACT The comprehension and correct use of German modal particles poses manifold problems for learners of German as a foreign language since the meaning of these particles is complex and highly dependent on contextual features which can...

THE EMERGENCE OF TEXTURE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE NOMINAL DEMONSTRATIVES IN AN ENGLISH INTERLANGUAGE CORPUS.
September 1, 2001... ABSTRACT This study uses the concept of "emergent texture" to analyze the corpus behavior of the four nominal demonstratives -- this, that, these, and those-- in an interlanguage corpus created at Yonsei University in the Fall of 1999....

EXPLORING PARALLEL CONCORDANCING IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE.
September 1, 2001... ABSTRACT This paper investigates the value of computer technology as a medium for the delivery of parallel texts in English and Chinese for language learning. An English-Chinese parallel corpus was created for use in parallel concordancing...

A CASE FOR USING A PARALLEL CORPUS AND CONCORDANCER FOR BEGINNERS OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.
September 1, 2001... ABSTRACT This pilot study set out to determine whether a parallel corpus and a concordancer would be appropriate tools to supplement a teaching programme of German at the beginners' level in an unsupervised environment. In this instance, a...

Call for Papers for Special Issue of LLT.
September 1, 2001... Theme: Distance Learning Guest Editor: Margo Glew This special issue of Language Learning and Technology will focus on all aspects relating to distance teaching and learning of languages and how both processes are best facilitated in...