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GLOTTODIDACTICS
Stampa
Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic year
2016/2017
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
L-LIN/02 (DIDACTICS OF MODERN LANGUAGES)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
1°
Period
2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
Italian.
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
JEZEK ELISABETTA (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
Familiarity with basic notion in general linguistics.
Learning outcomes
The course applies basic linguistics methods and notions to the fields of language learning and corpus linguistics.
Course contents
In this course we learn how to conduct corpus-based linguistic analysis, using methodologies and tools developed within corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. The student will be asked to set up and carry out an in-depth corpus-based analysis of a chosen linguistic phenomenon.

1. Types of corpora.
2. What counts as an annotated corpus. Annotation and mark-up.
3. Corpus query systems and methods.
4. Regular expressions.
5. Corpora for language learning and second language teaching.
6. Examples of linguistic analyses based on empirical evidence.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Slides
Lab
Meetings with teaching assistant
Reccomended or required readings
Introduction

Lenci A., Montemagni S., Pirrelli V. 2005. Testo e Computer, Roma: Carocci, Cap. 1: “I dati della lingua”.

Sinclair J. 2005. “Corpus and Text - Basic Principles”. In Wynne M. (ed.) Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice, Oxford: Oxbow Books: 1-16.

Annotation and mark-up

Lenci A., Montemagni S., Pirrelli V. 2005. Testo e Computer, Roma: Carocci, Cap. 8: “L’annotazione linguistica del testo”.

Leech G. 2005. “Adding Linguistic Annotation”. In Wynne M. (ed.) Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice, Oxford: Oxbow Books: 17-29.

Ide, Nancy. "Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora". In Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (eds.), A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell. 2004.
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/

Corpus Query Tools

Kilgarriff A., Rychly, P., Smrž, P. Tugwell,D. 2004. "The Sketch Engine". In Williams G. and S. Vessier (eds.), Proceedings of the XI Euralex International Congress, July 6-10, 2004, Lorient, France. 105-111.

Regular expressions

Thomas, J. 2016. Corpus Query Language in Details. In Discovering English with the Sketch Engine: A corpus-based approach to Language Exploration, Versatile Publisher, pp. 139-156.

Corpora for language learning and teaching

Baisa, V. and V. Suchomel. 2014. "SkELL Web Interface for English Language Learning". In A. Horák and P. Rychlý (eds.) Proceedings of Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing, 63–70.
Available on Researchgate.

Granger, S. 2012. "Learner corpora". In Chapelle, C.A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 3235–3242.
Available on Researchgate.
Assessment methods
Final oral exam covering material from the entire course.
Final assignment (8 pages) reporting the results of an in-depth corpus-based analysis of a linguistic phenomenon previously agreed during office hours. The text in pdf format must be sent to jezek@unipv.it 7 days before the exam.
Further information
Final oral exam covering material from the entire course.
Final assignment (8 pages) reporting the results of an in-depth corpus-based analysis of a linguistic phenomenon previously agreed during office hours. The text in pdf format must be sent to jezek@unipv.it 7 days before the exam.
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