in spite of the highly beneficial applications of corpus linguistics in language pedagogy, it has not found its way into mainstream efl. the major reasons seem to be the teachers’ lack of training and the unavailability of resources, especially computers in language classes. phrasal verbs have been shown to be a problematic area of learning english as a foreign language due to their semantic op...

Spelling variation causes considerable problems for corpus linguistic techniques such as frequency analysis, concordancing and automatic tagging, with a significant impact being made on recall and the accuracy of results [1]. This paper will focus on Early Modern English, the most recent period of the English language to include a large amount of inconsistent spelling. Although many corpora of ...

This paper explores the use of computer software such as databases and concordancing programs in the analysis of mathematical texts in the secondary classroom. It reports on research into aspects of the mathematics register at the individual word level, tracking the development of a single lexical item ‘diagonal’ through the various National Curriculum levels as presented within a particular Br...

Sentence-level writing errors seem immune to many of the feedback forms devised over the years, apart from the slow accumulation of examples from the environment itself, which second language (L2) learners gradually notice and use to varying degrees. A computer corpus and concordance could provide these examples in less time and more noticeable form, but until now the use of this technology has...

Early use of corpora for language learning has included analysis of word usage via concordancing. In addition, some attempts have been made to use readability criteria for recommending reading to learners. In this paper we discuss various tools and approaches for enhanced language learning support, including different methods of filtering text based on vocabulary and grammatical criteria. We de...

When applying corpus linguistic techniques to historical corpora, the corpus researcher should be cautious about the results obtained. Corpus annotation techniques such as part of speech tagging, trained for modern languages, are particularly vulnerable to inaccuracy due to vocabulary and grammatical shifts in language over time. Basic corpus retrieval techniques such as frequency profiling and...

It is impossible to perform root-based searching, concordancing, and grammar checking in Arabic without a method to match words with roots and vice versa. A comprehensive word list is essential for incremental searching, predictive SMS messaging, and spell checking, but due to the derivational and inflectional nature of Arabic, a comprehensive word list is taxing on storage space and access spe...

Of all the major world languages, Japanese is lagging behind in terms of publicly accessible and searchable corpora. In this paper we describe the development of JpWaC (Japanese Web as Corpus), a large corpus of 400 million words of Japanese web text, and its encoding for the Sketch Engine. The Sketch Engine is a web-based corpus query tool that supports fast concordancing, grammatical processi...

The value of language resources is greatly enhanced if they share a common markup with an explicit minimal semantics. Achieving this goal for lexical databases is difficult, as large-scale resources can realistically only be obtained by up-translation from pre-existing dictionaries, each with its own proprietary structure. This paper describes the approach we have taken in the Concede project, ...

This study investigates the influence of using five web-based practice units on English verb-noun collocations with the design of a web-based Chinese-English bilingual concordancer (keyword retrieval program) on collocation learning. Thirty-two college EFL students participated by taking a pre-test and two post-tests, and responding to a background questionnaire and an evaluation questionnaire....