Naomi Flynn
I am a Professor of multilingual education and a teacher educator. My research is focussed on teachers' professional learning to support their practice for multilingual learners.
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Naomi Flynn made a comment
This series of lectures has been fascinating . Particularly thought-provoking were the issues raised by using corpus linguistics to support the design of curricula. These touched on the problems related to global Englishes and the powerful status of English as a language that seemingly transcends others. Thus, used with some attempt at objectivity, corpus...
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Really liked Tony's discussion disambiguating encoding from decoding in terms of the way native speakers and English language learners' needs are different for dictionaries. Time to use corpus linguistics to support generation of a dictionary for English language learners in primary schools !
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The points raised in the first two videos are fascinating. My research interest is in the English language learning of children who have English as an additional language in primary schools, but I also specialise in teaching primary school teacher trainees to teach English. The national curriculum for English is currently dominated by very specific grammar...
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Naomi Flynn replied to Naomi Flynn
Thanks Helen. I do appreciate the way that in most of the weeks t the questions have been structured to encourage us to think about the method in terms of its rigour. It has made me change the way I am thinking about my methodology in a current research project, even though that change may not necessarily involve a corpus approach in the end. So useful - thank...
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In a statement the witness records events alone without the benefit of spoken-aloud reflection that dialogue might bring, and this might seem like a weakness of this approach. However, in interview, the power-relations between interviewer and participant will inevitably influence the course and focus of the conversation. Thus each approach has its...
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I found these lectures fascinating. Although I am not someone who would ever have to use corpus linguistics in the terms referred to in the lectures, I think that forensic corpus linguistics makes very clear the issues around cherry picking and lack of rigour that might be pitfalls in other word-based methodologies like discourse analysis. The practical...
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This was a really useful exercise for several reasons. Firstly it gave me some insight into how one might report on data analysis using corpus linguistics and secondly it gave me some insight into how much I have understood so far. Given that I mark students' assignments regularly as part of my job it was sobering to see that you can assume all sorts of...
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I found this conversation really useful for unpicking how what I do currently might be enhanced by corpus linguistics. Particularly useful was the discussion around whether we come to the corpus with hypotheses or whether these emerge from the corpus. Similarly the discussion around the types of research questions that might be best suited to a research design...
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Great to see such a topical issue used as an example - thank you! I chose a Guardian online article about Britain pushing back immigration border controls to Northern Ireland post-Brexit. The word 'control' is repeated throughout in a number of different contexts and is frequently associated with the phrase 'take back control' and 'immigration control'. The...
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The associations with 'cause' were particularly interesting. Further demonstrated for me the place of habitus ( unconscious dispositions) in language use and that this an issue for the researcher using discourse analysis or grounded theory. Corpus Linguistics offers some possibility of a kind of objectivity.
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Naomi Flynn replied to Naomi Flynn
Hi Nicole - yes that's right. I look at English as a global language and the way in which this makes it a kind of gold standard by which other languages are subjugated. Native English speakers don't necessarily think about this explicitly and thus language policy is founded on unconscious assumptions. The reason I think Corpus Linguistics will be useful for...
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I am hoping to analyse, with another colleague, a specialised corpora of policy documents relating to the teaching of children with English as an additional language in England. We are going to include both national and local education authority documentation. We are looking at use of particular terms that construct a view of children's linguistic and cultural...
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Naomi Flynn made a comment
Hi - this video was really practical and enlightening, thank you. I am wondering, as a researcher used to using NVivo to handle interview data for coding, how the processes in corpus linguistics are different from those used in Grounded Theory or those used in Discourse Analysis. My current research is looking at a corpus of policy documents related to the...
