Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis
eBook - ePub

Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis

  1. 290 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis

About this book

This innovative volume is one of the first to represent the usage of bilingual writers in both their languages, offering insight into language corpora as extremely valuable tools in contemporary applied linguistics research, and in turn, into how much of the world's population operate daily.

This book discusses one of the first examples of a bilingual writer corpus, the Zayed Arabic-English Bilingual Undergraduate Corpus (ZAEBUC), which includes writing by hundreds of students in two languages, with additional information about the writers and the texts. The result is a rich resource for research in multilingual use and learning of language. The book takes the reader through the design and use of such a corpus and illustrates the potential of this type of corpus with detailed studies that show how assessment, vocabulary, and discourse work across two very different languages.

This volume will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and educators in bilingualism, plurilingualism, language education, corpus design, and natural language processing.

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Yes, you can access Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis by David M. Palfreyman, Nizar Habash, David M. Palfreyman,Nizar Habash in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. 1 Why a bilingual writer corpus? Motivations and approaches
  9. 2 ZAEBUC design and annotation: guidelines, processes, and insights
  10. 3 The application of the CEFR to the assessment of L1 competence and plurilingual competence: methodology, possibilities and challenges
  11. 4 Semantic domains across topics, genders and languages
  12. 5 Can adult lexical diversity be measured bilingually? A proof-of-concept study
  13. 6 Lexical collocations in Arabic-English bilingualsā€™ writing across two proficiency levels
  14. 7 Personal metadiscourse and stance in Arabic and English essays: a comparative study
  15. 8 ā€œSocial media has invaded our homes, our lives, even our dining tablesā€: metaphor in bilingual writersā€™ discourse about social media
  16. 9 Corpus-based SLA research: potential applications for ZAEBUC and beyond
  17. Index