CLaC was delighted to host two well-attended talks on Wednesday 5 April. In the first of these, Benet Vincent talked about recurrent issues in N-gram / Lexical Bundle research, chief amongst them the confusion of method (lexical bundle analysis) with the phenomenon being investigated (phraseology, formulas). Benet aims to develop …
CLaC is delighted to welcome Dr Hülya Mısır for a two-week research training visit on corpora funded by an Erasmus grant from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Türkiye. Hülya recently gained her doctorate from METU. She has also worked at Cappadocia University, Florida International University and Ufuk University. …
CLaC is delighted to welcome Aysel Şahin Kızıl from İzmir Bakırçay University, Turkey as a visiting researcher. Aysel is an experienced educator and researcher with research interests in two main areas, computer assisted language learning and the use of corpus linguistics in language teaching & learning. In the area of …
CLaC is excited to announce that member Benet Vincent has a new chapter out (co-written with Jim Clarke) – ‘The Colours of the Real World Only Seem Really Real When You Viddy Them on the Screen’: The Adaptation of Nadsat in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in the collection Anthony …
Congratulations to CLaC member Yuhua, who has two publications out imminently. For details and links please see below Chen, Y. H., Harrison, S., Stevens, M. and Zhou, Q. (forthcoming). Developing A Multimodal Corpus of L2 English from an EMI University in China. Corpora. Chen, Y. H. & Zheng, Y. (2022). …
Hilary Nesi was the opening plenary speaker at the 6th Learner Corpus Research Conference, held at the Università degli Studi di Padova, 22nd-24th September 2022, in conjunction with the international Learner Corpus Association (see http://www.maldura.unipd.it/lcr-2022/). The conference attracted participants from all over the world, with talks concerning topics such as …
The Corpus Connections symposium organised by Sheena Gardner took place on Wed. 13th July, with a particular focus on corpus markup and analysis. The symposium included presentations by PGRs Cipto Wardoyo and David Beauchamp, by CAMC colleagues Hilary Nesi and Benet Vincent, and by Visiting Scholar from the Spanish Applied …
Our CLaC colleague Lee has just published ‘Shaping Writing Grades: Collocation and Writing Context Effects’ with Philip Durrant at the University of Exeter. This book is free to download for the next week or so here. Book summary This Element explores relationships between collocations, writing quality, and learner and contextual …
James just had the corrections to his thesis ‘Writing at the crossroads: A linguistic analysis of academic business report writing at a modern UK university’ accepted by the University of Birmingham. James’ research focused on the ‘case study report’ genre of student writing and compared report texts produced in a …
Dr Yu-Hua Chen from the School of Humanities at Coventry University, Dr Ying Zheng and Prof. Roumyana Slabakova from Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton have been successful in winning the British Academy Talent Development Award 2021. They will work on a project entitled “An Investigation of the Statistical …
