Laura Viale
I'm interested in expanding and acquiring new teaching skills and methodologies and I believe learning about corpus can help me incorporate that in the classroom.
Location Argentina
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Thank for all the resources, explanation and feedback you have given us!
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I searched the term "bloody" on BNC and BNC64. For the BNC search, males had a frequency of 241.761 vs the 450.101 for female speakers. Whereas in the BN64, there is a higher normalized frequency for male speakers (8.74) vs female speakers (7.35). There might be a discrepancy in the frequency of use between the two corpora or I made a mistake in the...
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This tool is very interesting. Have you updated the corpus since_?
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It may because women have traditionally been the models for language change and the ones taught to speak "well", and bad language and swearing words have been "banned" or taboo for them. With the passing of time and the changes in human behavior this shifted.
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It would be very interesting to compare the 60+ group for today vs the 50's or the 60's
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it never occurred to me to have so many linguistic categories for referring to bad words.
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This is one of the topics that learners enjoy the most
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I think it would be a learners corpus from previous years and size would depend on voluntary participation. I would like for students to uses it as an extra recourse in their composition, for example, instead of going to Google for answers.
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This is exactly what I want to do for my classes.
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Thanks for sharing material in different languages.
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Utterly: frequency: 28.768 instances per million
Perfectly: frequency: 47.947 instances per million words
The adverb "perfectly seems to be within a positive context> perfectly and joyously, works perfectly, perfectly honest. Whereas "utterly" is found within a negative context: utterly horrifying, utterly lousy, utterly miserable.... -
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Excellent resource!!!
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Corpora is becoming more of a key resource for language teaching in providing students and teachers with context, examples and patterns.
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I have very little experience in using corpora in language learning. I have used a small corpus to extract examples to teach email writing, which is a great resource into providing naturalness in language learning.
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I think lexical bundles account for the naturalness of language; they help learners identify how to sound or write native like.
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Brown Family corpus has 99,183 *ly ending terms. When restricting to only adverbs, the result changes to 12,183
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so many symbols to remember. I think after a bit of practice you get the hang of it
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Very useful tool!!!!
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I like theses lecture a little bit more with every video!!!
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I haven't though about a dictionary being an encoding tool.
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I remember being taught 0 and 1 conditionals during my 4th or 5th year of English. I was extremely surprised with this Mindt study.
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"The naturalness of the learners of English" this is the key in teaching, at least for me, prioritizing flowing language communication.
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threadbare (adjective): deterioration state of a fabric. State in which threads are exposed.
luckily (adverb): done with luck, with fortune. -
Laura Viale replied to Laura Viale
@AlexandraKrendel thanks a lot! It makes sense
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Thanks for sharing conversations with such prestigious professionals
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Sociolinguistics is such a vast field that can interact with so many others. What I like the most is collaboration and the reuse of the information, and this is sense Corpus Linguistics is an essential element.
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Given the influence that social and mass media have on speaker and the fact that they are the ones who have historically transmitted the standard variants, it it common to see a higher frequency in the use of "isn't".
155.974 instances vs 31.552 instances in the British National Corpus. -
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Everything runs smoothly. My only suggestion is to add a "start query" at the bottom of the restricted query so that users don't have to scroll back up.
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When looking for primary or basic colours such as red, blue pink, I found that they were more frequent among men (157.968:132.207, 126.926:87.423, 45.068:40.864). However more complex colours (in their composition as well as their spelling) like magenta and turquoise, frequency favored women. There was no result for "turquoise-men".
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I think I missed the explanation of the parenthesis use. Do they change the results in any way?
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It is actually very user friendly and easy to follow.
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It would be an interesting study to see how those who opted for newer pronouns talk, whether they lean towards female or male.
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It is very useful to have several corpora in one place. Specially for comparison.
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user created!
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I missed a couple regional features, but with the feedback now I can be on the lookout.
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it's so much fun working with these handouts.
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Laura Viale replied to Trace Dreyer
@TraceDreyer I had the same idea. I was actually planning my lesson to assign some time to show this corpus to my students
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If I am 100% honest the first thing I searched for was my name. I was curious to see if it was there.
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but about non binary speakers? How is this gender tackled?
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I listen every single word they say, body language, eye movement. I
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A bit behind on my weeks but catching up!!!!
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I have always been interested in Sign Language. I took a course on Argentinean Sign Language but did not know that the creation of a corpus was possible,
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I agree with the educator´s feedback.
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This task was really interesting in having alternative feedback perspectives.
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I believe essay 3 provided a more comprehensive answer focusing on cultural differences and from the beginning the student made it clear the they would focus on one aspect of the data set. In my opinion this is the most organized and clear of the three.
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Building my mini corpus with newspaper articles was a good challenge to have a sample for my upcoming learners corpus. I started to explore language learning which is one of my main interest, and was surprised with the depth of the automatic report produced by #LancsBox.
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Kudos to the linguist doing the transcriptions and annotations at that speed!
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Laura Viale replied to Laura Viale
@LorraeFox Thanks a lot for your response!!!
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Laura Viale replied to Laura Viale
I anonymized all sensible information and uploaded the material to #LancsBox. The corpus has 63 files, 15267 tokens, 2698 types and 2421 lemmas.
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I have two questions before importing the material to #LancsBox.
As I want to upload written assignments from my students to create a learners corpus, I have already renamed the files, how is their identity protected?
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I've been waiting for this unit!!!!
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@AlexandraKrendel thanks for the explanation!!
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When I read about immigration in the local newspapers (Argentina) the clusters and collocations you see to discuss RASIM have negative connotation. "migration drama", "chilling images", "devastating scenes", "immigration plight", "dangers that face migrants", "beg for asylum's", "mortal passage", etc. You can say that we don't have a very promising horizon. I...
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Got them right!!!! Took me a long time, but I understood what was doing wrong. The tips and explanations are really helpful.
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I was searching "already" instead of "already_adv" with the lemma filter. That was the problem
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I cannot work out task 2b. I do have the filters but cannot do the search for each adverb.
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These tools are helpful as they allow the beginner research to conduct statistical analyses
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How do clusters like "post as" come into the research process? How can you draw the limit of clusters associated to the keyword you are investigating?
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In today's edition from The Guardian, articled entitled "UK asylum seekers in hotels should have been given money for phone calls, judge rules" refers to people searching for asylum as asylum seekers throughout the text. The author is clearly in favour of asylum seekers being granted money for covering "essential living costs" such as phone calls, and hotel...
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Excellent material for beginners, thanks so much!.
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I created my definitions with the context that first came to mind, which I guess was the most frequent one. Now I understand I can apply concepts like semantic preference and colligation.
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I felt excited about successfully completed all five tasks!!
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I got three shared collocations. Hopefully this was correct, I guess I will find out soon.
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Laura Viale replied to Hamisu Hamisu Haruna
I had the same issue, the result I get is only the word "time"
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I'm fascinated with the idea of graph representation of collocations. Being able to visually represent the connection of words is impressive.
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Tony is so clear in his lectures, specially for us beginners in the field. Thanks!!!
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If one is focusing on infrequent words or phrases, would those still be "keywords"?
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I have always encouraged students to use collocation dictionaries and taught them to retrieve new collocations from articles, magazines, etc. I believe the use of corpora for retrieving collocation would be more useful for students and professionals in general.
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Diamond-English (concrete noun): precious translucent stone made of refined charcoal.
Cause- English: (noun) reason or motive for doing something.
Cause- English: (verb) to produce a result.
Cause- Spanish: (verb- present subjunctive -1st or 3rd person singular) that a person or object may produce some result. -
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Excellent explanation!
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Laura Viale replied to Annie Heringer
@AnnieHeringer thanks for sharing this link!!!
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Great conversation with Professor Semino, I would like to be in all of her classes and projects.
It continues to amaze me how board the field of Corpus Linguistics is and the many applications from the most tangible thing like creation class books to improving the recovering of cancer patients. -
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My goal corpus would be a learner corpus with annotations. I want to create new interactive and fun material for the classrooms, specially for L3 learners.
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I truly appreciate it finding material in other languages!
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I took quite a while to understand Task five, I got no results at first but after reading the manual, I started to see some results. It takes time and practice.
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I have been playing around with the BNC2014-Business corpus I downloaded and I has helped me a lot to understand the functions of the #LancsBox.
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Are there recordings that can be included in a multimodal corpus to assess non verbal cues?
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I was thinking about sociolinguistic information provided in corpora and it made me think about the changes that we are starting to see in the way non binary people speak and write, specially in binary languages like Spanish of course. This is an interesting topic from the pedagogic point of view, I think, as it introduces new approaches in teaching gender in...
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Creating a learner corpus would be one of my goals, always aiming at improving the learning-teaching process. An IRB is required for creating this kind of corpus or just students' consent?
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I believe that finding those rare instances of language is the most exciting part of analyzing data.
I've always thought that a corpus would be more extensive than 30,000 or 40,000 words for representativeness to take place. -
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I want to find out how corpora can benefit the L2 and L3 learning process. Can writing and transcriptions from oral interactions benefit L2 and L3 learners master those target languages?
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Laura Viale made a comment
Hello! I'm Laura, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I'm a Sworn Translator and a Hispanic Linguist. I got interested in Corpus Linguistics as a way of implementing corpora in the classroom to improve learner's skills. As well as Shazia, I also want to focus on second language pedagogies and intercultural communication.
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I look forward to learning more on the topic, as a beginner in the field all resources are helping me a lot to understand how to implement corpora in different aspects of my professional life.
