Akifa Imtiaz
Location Pakistan
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@RaffaellaBottini Yes :)
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@HannaSchmueck Thanks a lot.
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good idea! :-D
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I must say... a huge thank you for such a wonderful course!
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This is getting interesting!
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I couldn't listen to any swearing but I came across a lot of it on the social media platforms.
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Agreed.
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Thanks for such a rich resource.
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My dream corpus will consist of slangs, especially the ones used in CMC. It will not be a very large corpus but it will be used to teach ESL students the difference between spoken/colloquial discourse and academic discourse.
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Interesting!
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Thanks for the wonderful resources
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Thanks. I found it quite user friendly.
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I'm glad that my answers were pretty much similar to the teacher's. Quite a helpful activity.
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I have no experience of using corpora in language learning or research. This is the reason that I am taking this course. From what I have learned so far, I can confidently say that corpora can be very useful in learning and teaching a language.
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Pheww!! I'm glad I am learning so much!
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I guess the spoken language sounds more natural with lexical bundles and as far as written academic discourse is concerned, it relies heavily on such bundles.
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I used BNC2014 Spoken corpus and searched for *ly and I got 167,799 results.
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Threadbare: something in a dilapidated condition or in deteriorating condition
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'Isn't' is used by educated social class whereas 'ain't' is used by the less educated class. But, since the rise in the use of social media and CMC these boundaries are fading and now younger people, no matter from what class, use such language as a netspeak.
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signing-up was a little tricky. All the rest is under control :-D
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I found that women are using more color terms as compared to men. I searched for 'violet' and only 5 matches in 4 texts for male were found whereas for female it was 15 matches in 11 different texts.
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I particularly notice their accent and body language.
Yes, I usually guess from which area they belong to through listening to their accent. -
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Yes, the educator has given a detailed feedback and I agree with it.
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Interesting activity.
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I found essay 3 quite precise and to-the-point. The title is catchy as well.
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I build a mini corpus of almost 20,000 words from newspaper articles on a particular theme. I enjoyed working on creating my own corpus.
For my research I am interested to study Pakistani Twitter users' corpus and I have no idea if it is available or not.
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This is too good! loved it.
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I'm so excited, I created my own corpus!
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I selected an article on Afghan refugees and found words like, illegal, unemployed, homeless.
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So this is getting more interesting!
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Both my definitions were quite different from the ones given in the lecture. I realized that I was looking at these 2 words from a single/subjective lens. So, yes, through corpora one can learn about various contexts in which a word is used.
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Tasks were easy and my answers were pretty much the same. I did fumble at a couple of places, but watching that bit on the video again helped me. I found them quite useful, being a beginner in this field.
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great!
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I would like to build a corpus of Pakistani users language on the Twitter.
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I would like to explore the language people use on the social media platforms (e.g. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) to construct various identities.
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Looking forward to the course!
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Hey! Thanks
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Hi from Pakistan!
I am an Assistant Professor in the department of English at a university here. My research interests are Sociolinguistics, Socio-pragmatics, ELT/TESOL, CALL and Blended Learning. It is my first exposure to Corpus Linguistics and I'm looking forward to learn a lot.
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Thank you very much for sharing the glossary with us.
