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Corpus Linguistics is one of the fastest emerging language teaching methods in modern applied linguistics. Several studies have been carried out to study the effectiveness of using Corpus Linguistics to comprehend the dynamics of language learning and to harness the benefits of learning a language though corpus based approach. This paper examines some of the significant studies on Corpus Lingui...

The aim of the present investigation is to examine applied linguistics and english language teaching. Many resent researches concerned with applied linguistics have led to a phenomenon to resolve language problems in general and in particular english language. In general, language phenomenon is complex. Finegan and Besiner defined language as a finite system of elements and principles that make...

this paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. the abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to november 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the compleat lexical tutor. the output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

Computational modeling of human language processes is a small but growing subfield of computational linguistics. This paper describes a course that makes use of recent research in psychocomputational modeling as a framework to introduce a number of mainstream computational linguistics concepts to an audience of linguistics, cognitive science and computer science doctoral students. The emphasis ...

James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

Since the advent of the computer in 1945, computational research has by now become pervasive in just about all newly created as well as traditional fields. Nor has linguistics escaped this tidal surge. In fact, a pre-computer computational perspective had already been attempted when linguists examined their data utilizing scientific methods; computational linguistics was formalized after the em...