Callimachus—Avoiding the Pitfalls of XML for Collaborative Text Analysis
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
June 2006; p ublished online April 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Teaching and Learning; Computational Linguistics; Bibliography; Digital Lifestyle; Information and Communication Technologies. 10362 words.
We present our experience in developing an on-line infrastructure to support collaborative analysis of text, which we distinguish from existing, well-explored efforts to create annotative...
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Developing Integrated Editions of Minority Language Dictionaries: The Irish Example
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
April 2008; p ublished online February 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Teaching and Learning; Computational Linguistics; Bibliography; Digital Lifestyle; Information and Communication Technologies. 4127 words.
The Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) project at University College Cork is an on-line corpus of multilingual texts that are encoded in TEI conformant SGML/XML. As of September 2006, the...
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Developing ODIN: A Multilingual Repository of Annotated Language Data for Hundreds of the World's Languages
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
September 2010; p ublished online May 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Teaching and Learning; Computational Linguistics; Bibliography; Digital Lifestyle; Information and Communication Technologies. 8271 words.
In this article, we review the process of building ODIN, the Online Database of Interlinear Text (http://odin.linguistlist.org) a multilingual repository of linguistically analyzed language...
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Testing NINES
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
December 2010; p ublished online December 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Teaching and Learning; Computational Linguistics; Bibliography; Digital Lifestyle; Information and Communication Technologies. 3800 words.
As scholarly publishing transitions from a static medium (paper) to a digital one, a necessary tension has emerged between a static, or archival, approach to content, and the dynamic,...
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New Models for Electronic Publishing
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
June 2001; p ublished online June 2001 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Teaching and Learning; Computational Linguistics; Bibliography; Digital Lifestyle; Information and Communication Technologies. 0 words.
Any project in the electronic medium that lays claim to scholarly authority will require adaptations in both the presentation and the dissemination of its materials. Work in progress on an...
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Augmenting learner autonomy through blogging
in ELT Journal
October 2010; p ublished online March 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Acquisition; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods. 3268 words.
Blogs have developed in two major ways: as a personal diary online and as a technologically enhanced multimedia diary that can be manipulated to suit the user’s needs. This paper...
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Teaching English as a friendly language: lessons from the SCOTS corpus
in ELT Journal
October 2010; p ublished online November 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Acquisition; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods. 3344 words.
This paper uses the interactional spoken data contained in the Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech (SCOTS) to investigate ‘friendly’ language and shows how its principles can inform a model...
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Learner-created lexical databases using web-based source material
in ELT Journal
April 2009; p ublished online May 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Acquisition; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods. 3727 words.
The use of authentic text has been argued to increase learner awareness of lexical form, function, and meaning (for example, Willis 1990; Johns 1994). The Web provides ready-made material...
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‘Key Concepts in ELT’: taking stock
in ELT Journal
October 2012; p ublished online September 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Acquisition; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods. 4170 words.
This article identifies patterns and trends within ‘Key Concepts in ELT’, both since the inception of the feature in ELT Journal in 1993 and during the 17 years of the current editorship....
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Learner autonomy revisited
in ELT Journal
October 2012; p ublished online September 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Acquisition; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods. 3828 words.
This article explores whether the perception of learner autonomy that is promoted in language pedagogy is suitable for preparing students to perform successfully in the changed...
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Talking the talk of the TESOL classroom
in ELT Journal
April 2006; p ublished online April 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Acquisition; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods. 3788 words.
This paper considers ways in which a detailed understanding of classroom discourse can be achieved through the use of reflective practices and professional dialogue. For the teacher,...
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Perspectives on spoken grammar
in ELT Journal
October 2009; p ublished online March 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Acquisition; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods. 4177 words.
English language teachers' opinions on the pedagogic relevance of spoken grammar are beginning to be reported, yet the voices of teachers in East Asia are rarely heard. In this article, the...
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Writing for publication as a tool in teacher development
in ELT Journal
October 2015; p ublished online May 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Acquisition. 4426 words.
Writing is widely accepted as a tool in the personal and professional development of teachers. Among other forms of teacher writing, writing for publication is rather unusual as it requires...
Report from Middle-Earth: fan fiction tasks in the EFL classroom
in ELT Journal
October 2016; p ublished online June 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Acquisition. 4370 words.
This study builds upon work in task-based language teaching and literary studies to explore the use of fan fiction as a pedagogical tool in a technology-enhanced university foreign language...
Pausing patterns: differences between L2 learners and native speakers
in ELT Journal
January 2011; p ublished online May 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Acquisition; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods. 3918 words.
This paper reports on a comparative study of pauses made by L2 learners and native speakers of English while narrating picture stories. The comparison is based on the number of pauses and...
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Student transcription for reflective language learning
in ELT Journal
November 2018; p ublished online April 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Learning (Specific Skills); Language Teaching Theory and Methods; Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language; Language Acquisition. 4377 words.
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Transcribing is a well-established technique that allows language students to analyse their own conversations and recorded talks. In the past it may...
Developing Web Databases for Aboriginal Language Preservation
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
June 2007; p ublished online December 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Teaching and Learning; Computational Linguistics; Bibliography; Digital Lifestyle; Information and Communication Technologies. 7929 words.
This article discusses the development of integrated multilingual Web databases to help the preservation of the Native American language East Cree. The creation of digital online resources...
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The master builders: LAIRAH research on good practice in the construction of digital humanities projects
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
September 2008; p ublished online September 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Teaching and Learning; Computational Linguistics; Bibliography; Digital Lifestyle; Information and Communication Technologies. 8506 words.
Although many digital humanities resources are being developed for online use, there is little understanding of why some become popular, whilst others are neglected. Through log analysis...
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Teaching TEI: The Need for TEI by Example
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
September 2009; p ublished online May 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Teaching and Learning; Computational Linguistics; Bibliography; Digital Lifestyle; Information and Communication Technologies. 5134 words.
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)1 has provided a complex and comprehensive system of provisions for scholarly text encoding. Although a major focus of the ‘digital humanities’ domain, and...
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Detecting authorship deception: a supervised machine learning approach using author writeprints
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
June 2012; p ublished online March 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Language Teaching and Learning; Computational Linguistics; Bibliography; Digital Lifestyle; Information and Communication Technologies. 6560 words.
We describe a new supervised machine learning approach for detecting authorship deception, a specific type of authorship attribution task particularly relevant for cybercrime forensic...
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