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From Data to Evidence in English Language Research

Author : Carla Suhr
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004390650
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book From Data to Evidence in English Language Research written by Carla Suhr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Data to Evidence in English Language Research draws on diverse digital data sources alongside more traditional linguistic corpora to offer new insights into the ways in which they can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics. This is achieved, for example, by increasing data size, adding multi-layered contextual analyses, applying methods from adjacent fields, and adapting existing data sets to new uses. Making innovative contributions to digital linguistics, the chapters in the volume apply a combination of methods to the increasing amount of digital data available to researchers to show how this data – both established and newly available - can be utilized, enriched and rethought to provide new evidence for developments in the English language.

Educating English Language Learners

Author : Fred Genesee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139448986
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Educating English Language Learners written by Fred Genesee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a review of scientific research on the learning outcomes of students with limited or no proficiency in English in U.S. schools. Research on students in kindergarten to grade 12 is reviewed. The primary chapters of the book focus on these students' acquisition of oral language skills in English, their development of literacy (reading & writing) skills in English, instructional issues in teaching literacy, and achievement in academic domains (i.e., mathematics, science, and reading). The reviews and analyses of the research are relatively technical with a focus on research quality, design characteristics, and statistical analyses. The book provides a set of summary tables that give details about each study, including full references, characteristics of the students in the research, assessment tools and procedures, and results. A concluding chapter summarizes the major issues discussed and makes recommendations about particular areas that need further research.

Methods in Pragmatics

Author : Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110427524
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Methods in Pragmatics by : Andreas H. Jucker

Download or read book Methods in Pragmatics written by Andreas H. Jucker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods in Pragmatics provides a systematic overview of the different types of data, the different methods of data collection and data analysis used in pragmatic research. It offers authoritative and comprehensive surveys of the entire breadth of methods and methodologies. Part 1 covers introspectional, philosophical and cognitive pragmatics. Part 2 is devoted to experimental pragmatics, including discourse completion and dialogue construction tasks, role-plays and other production and comprehension tasks. Part 3 reviews observational pragmatics including ethnographic and discourse analytic methods, and part 4, finally, is devoted to corpus pragmatics including accounts of corpus compilation, annotation and data retrieval specific to pragmatic research. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art account of the precise workings of one particular method, its applications in the relevant research literature as well as a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and the type of pragmatic research questions for which it is most suitable.

Exploring Language and Society with Big Data

Author : Minna Korhonen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027249512
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring Language and Society with Big Data by : Minna Korhonen

Download or read book Exploring Language and Society with Big Data written by Minna Korhonen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data, parliamentary discourse, and historical linguistics in a truly interdisciplinary exploration at the vanguard of big data and corpus methods with the aim to investigate the intersection between linguistic and social change. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, the studies included in this volume range from a focus on explicitly linguistic phenomena to topics that contribute to our understanding of language and society more generally. It breaks new ground in its critical reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges of using large corpora of parliamentary discourse to study both the specialised language of parliamentary speech and the societies that the parliaments in question represent and govern.

Communicating English in Specialised Domains

Author : Stefania Maci
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527545032
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Communicating English in Specialised Domains by : Stefania Maci

Download or read book Communicating English in Specialised Domains written by Stefania Maci and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Maurizio Gotti, in honour of his long and noteworthy academic career. Having served as Full Professor of History of the English Language and of English Language and Translation for more than two decades at the University of Bergamo, Italy, Gotti made significant contributions to multiple areas of study including specialized discourses, lexicography, history of the English language and language teaching. This wide-ranging collection brings together essays from these fields of enquiry authored by scholars whose academic input have interacted in various ways with ideas and topics introduced or extensively discussed by Gotti. The contributions are grouped into four theme-based sections representing the main threads in Gotti’s research, from the macro area of specialised discourse to the more specific fields of research in academic and legal languages, while the fourth section includes contributions dealing with the history of English language, and is followed by a miscellaneous section which concludes the collection.

Approaching English Language Research

Author : Desmond Allison
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971692582
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Approaching English Language Research written by Desmond Allison and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to help students and other interested readers approach research in English Language studies. Its concerns include project, dissertation and thesis research and writing.

Corpora and the Changing Society

Author : Paula Rautionaho
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261318
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Corpora and the Changing Society by : Paula Rautionaho

Download or read book Corpora and the Changing Society written by Paula Rautionaho and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the immediate past, the contributors in this volume use a variety of corpus methods to address the two patterns of change. The cross-fertilization of cultural studies and corpus linguistics, we hope, is beneficial for both parties, as corpus linguistics offers a vast array of materials and methods to investigate cultural and societal change, while cultural studies provide the theoretical background on which to build our research. The studies included in the present volume illustrate the potential avenues and the merits of combining changing language and changing societies.

Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders

Author : Steven Coats
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135036228X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders written by Steven Coats and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the ways in which recent developments in corpus linguistics and natural language processing can engage with topics across language studies, humanities and social science disciplines. New approaches have emerged in recent years that blur disciplinary boundaries, facilitated by factors such as the application of computational methods, access to large data sets, and the sharing of code, as well as continual advances in technologies related to data storage, retrieval, and processing. The “march of data” denotes an area at the border region of linguistics, humanities, and social science disciplines, but also the inevitable development of the underlying technologies that drive analysis in these subject areas. Organized into 3 sections, the chapters are connected by the underlying thread of linguistic corpora: how they can be created, how they can shed light on varieties or registers, and how their metadata can be utilized to better understand the internal structure of similar resources. While some chapters in the volume make use of well-established existing corpora, others analyze data from platforms such as YouTube, Twitter or Reddit. The volume provides insight into the diversity of methods, approaches, and corpora that inform our understanding of the “border regions” between the realms of data science, language/linguistics, and social or cultural studies.

Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data

Author : Andrew Piper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108918220
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data by : Andrew Piper

Download or read book Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data written by Andrew Piper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element tackles the problem of generalization with respect to text-based evidence in the field of literary studies. When working with texts, how can we move, reliably and credibly, from individual observations to more general beliefs about the world? The onset of computational methods has highlighted major shortcomings of traditional approaches to texts when it comes to working with small samples of evidence. This Element combines a machine learning-based approach to detect the prevalence and nature of generalization across tens of thousands of sentences from different disciplines alongside a robust discussion of potential solutions to the problem of the generalizability of textual evidence. It exemplifies the way mixed methods can be used in complementary fashion to develop nuanced, evidence-based arguments about complex disciplinary issues in a data-driven research environment.

Studies in the History of the English Language VI

Author : Michael Adams
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110395029
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in the History of the English Language VI by : Michael Adams

Download or read book Studies in the History of the English Language VI written by Michael Adams and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume – which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora – challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.

Studies in the History of the English Language

Author : Donka Minkova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197146
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Studies in the History of the English Language written by Donka Minkova and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities

Author : Svenja Adolphs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000049728
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities written by Svenja Adolphs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities serves as a reference point for key developments related to the ways in which the digital turn has shaped the study of the English language and of how the resulting methodological approaches have permeated other disciplines. It draws on modern linguistics and discourse analysis for its analytical methods and applies these approaches to the exploration and theorisation of issues within the humanities. Divided into three sections, this handbook covers: sources and corpora; analytical approaches; English language at the interface with other areas of research in the digital humanities. In covering these areas, more traditional approaches and methodologies in the humanities are recast and research challenges are re-framed through the lens of the digital. The essays in this volume highlight the opportunities for new questions to be asked and long-standing questions to be reconsidered when drawing on the digital in humanities research. This is a ground-breaking collection of essays offering incisive and essential reading for anyone with an interest in the English language and digital humanities.

Methods of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts

Author : James Flood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135605726
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Methods of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts written by James Flood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text makes available in a concise format the chapters comprising the research methodology section of the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Second Edition. An introduction, designed to give K-12 teachers an understanding of the basic categories and functions of research in teaching, is followed by chapters addressing teacher professionalism and the rise of "multiple literacies"; empirical research; longitudinal studies; case studies; ethnography; teacher research; teacher inquiry into literacy, social justice, and power; synthesis research; fictive representation; and contemporary methodological issues and future direction in research on the teaching of English. Methods of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts is well-suited for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level literacy research methods courses.

Reviewing Research Evidence for Nursing Practice

Author : Christine Webb
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470691417
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Reviewing Research Evidence for Nursing Practice written by Christine Webb and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing research evidence for nursing practice: systematic reviews highlights the key issues involved in conducting different types of systematic reviews - encompassing qualitative studies, quantitative studies and combining quantitative and qualitative studies. It enables nurses and researchers to understand the key principles involved in preparing systematic reviews and to critically appraise the reviews they read and evaluate their usefulness in developing their own practice. Each section starts with an overview of the methodology, followed by a selection of systematic reviews carried out in specialist areas of nursing practice. Part 1 explores systematic reviews and meta-analysis of quantitative research, part 2 explores meta-synthesis and meta-study of qualitative research and part 3 addresses integrative reviews that combine both qualitative and quantitative evidence. The final part explores the use of systematic reviews in service and practice development.

Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)

Author : John M. Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317931556
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) by : John M. Kirk

Download or read book Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics) written by John M. Kirk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of methodological principles for the study of language both in its contemporary distribution and in its historical evolution. The essays in this volume, by contributors to the linguistic atlases and other dialectologists, describe some of the problems that bedevil the study of dialect and the methodological solutions employed to minimise them. They also survey the contributions that linguistic cartography can make to the study of English and of language in general. The considerations it embodies are of major importance for the student of language and, in addition, the book is an invaluable companion to the Atlases.

Democratising English Language Research Education in the Face of Eurocentric Knowledge Transfer

Author : Meng Hui
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 149696716X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Democratising English Language Research Education in the Face of Eurocentric Knowledge Transfer written by Meng Hui and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of Chinese research students studying in Australian universities is growing (Bradley, 2008). They are supposed to adapt to the new academic culture and their own intellectual assets are marginalised or even ignored (Singh, 2009, 2010; Singh & Han, 2009, 2010). Being situated in an academic environment which is Eurocentric, hierarchical, and largely dominated by the Western or Euro-American theory, in most cases, these students have to keep their own intellectual assets silent. This is another representation of Eurocentric knowledge diffusion (Alatas, 2006; Connell, 2007). However, despite all these unfavourable situations, some Chinese international research students have used some Chinese intellectual assets while doing research in Australia (Han, 2006; Han & Zhao, 2008; Singh & Han, 2009, 2010). Informed by Rancieres concepts of democracy (1991, 2006a, 2007b, 2009c) and mute speech (1999, 2007b, 2010a), this study makes original contribution to knowledge through (i) advancing a claim for, and an approach to democratising Australian research education and (ii) developing the mute speech pedagogy which might help engaging non-Western theoretical knowledge in this process.

Improving Testing For English Language Learners

Author : Rebecca Kopriva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113559600X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Improving Testing For English Language Learners written by Rebecca Kopriva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any book to date, this one provides a comprehensive approach to designing, building, implementing and interpreting test results that validly measure the academic achievement of English language learners. It scaffolds the entire process of test development and implementation and discusses essential intervention points. The book provides the type of evidence-based guidance called for in federal mandates such as the NCLB legislation. Key features of this important new book include the following... Comprehensive – This book recommends methods for properly including ELLs throughout the entire test development process, addressing all essential steps from planning, item writing and reviews to analyses and reporting. Breadth and Depth of Coverage– Coverage includes discussion of the key issues, explanations and detailed instructions at each intervention point. Research Focus – All chapters include an extensive review of current research. Emerging Trends – The chapters summarize guidance appropriate for innovative computer-based assessments of the future as well as the paper-and-pencil tests of today. This book is appropriate for anyone concerned with the development and implementation of fair and accurate testing programs for English language learners. This includes university based researchers, testing personel at the federal, state and local levels, teachers interested in better assessing their diverse student populations and those involved in the testing industry. It is also appropriate for instructors teaching undergraduate and graduate courses devoted to testing the full range of students in todays schools.